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Word Meanings - STUCK-UP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Self-important and supercilious, The airs of small, stuck-up, men. A. K. H. Boyd.

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  • SMALLISH
    Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
  • IMPORTANTLY
    In an important manner.
  • SUPERCILIOUS
    Lofty with pride; haughty; dictatorial; overbearing; arrogant; as, a supercilious officer; asupercilious air; supercilious behavior. -- Su`per*cil"i*ous*ly, adv. -- Su`per*cil"i*ous*ness, n. (more info) eyebrow, pride; super over, + cilium
  • STUCK
    imp. & p. p. of Stick.
  • SMALLCLOTHES
    A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
  • SMALLPOX
    A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
  • STUCKLE
    A number of sheaves set together in the field; a stook.
  • SMALL
    sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity
  • SMALLAGE
    A biennial umbelliferous plant native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery.
  • SMALLY
    In a small quantity or degree; with minuteness. Ascham.
  • IMPORTANT
    1. Full of, or burdened by, import; charged with great interests; restless; anxious. Thou hast strength as much As serves to execute a mind very important. Chapman. 2. Carrying or possessing weight or consequence; of valuable content or bearing;
  • SMALLNESS
    The quality or state of being small.
  • SMALLS
    See 3
  • SMALLSWORD
    A light sword used for thrusting only; especially, the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century.
  • STUCK-UP
    Self-important and supercilious, The airs of small, stuck-up, men. A. K. H. Boyd.
  • BESTUCK
    imp. & p. p. Bestick.
  • DISMALLY
    In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
  • ABYSMALLY
    To a fathomless depth; profoundly. "Abysmally ignorant." G. Eliot.
  • SELF-IMPORTANT
    Having or manifesting an exaggerated idea of one's own importance or merit.
  • BAPTISMALLY
    In a baptismal manner.

 

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