Word Meanings - STUCK-UP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Related words: (words related to STUCK-UP)

• 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.