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stuck-up
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective stuck-up has 1 sense
- stuck-up(s = adj.all) bigheaded, persnickety, snooty, snot-nosed, snotty, too big for one's breeches, uppish - (used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant; "a snotty little scion of a degenerate family"; "they're snobs--stuck-up and uppity and persnickety"
CIDE DICTIONARY
stuck-up, a.
Self-important and supercilious, 1913 Webster]
"The airs of small, stuck-up, men."
[1913 Webster]
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