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English Dictionary: stuck-up by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
stuck-up
adj
  1. (used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant; "a snotty little scion of a degenerate family"-Laurent Le Sage; "they're snobs--stuck-up and uppity and persnickety"
    Synonym(s): bigheaded, persnickety, snooty, snot-nosed, snotty, stuck-up, too big for one's breeches, uppish
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Stuck-up \Stuck"-up`\, a.
      Self-important and supercilious, [?]onceited; vain; arrogant.
      [Colloq.]
  
               The airs of small, stuck-up, men.            --A. K. H.
                                                                              Boyd.
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