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stuck-up, a. colloq.
[pa. pple. of stick up, stick v.1 35.]
Assuming an unjustified air of superiority, or pluming oneself unduly on real superiority; offensively pretentious.
1829Edin. Rev. L. 245 At the first sight of the Elgin Marbles, we feel that..the ancient objects of our idolatry fall into an inferior class or style of art. They are comparatively..stuck-up gods and goddesses. 1839Dickens Nich. Nick. ix, ‘He's a nasty stuck-up monkey, that's what I consider him,’ said Mrs. Squeers. 1844‘Jon. Slick’ High Life N. York II. 87 Does the stuck up varmint feel above riding with an honest Yankee, because he haint got no title? 1860Hotten's Slang Dict. 230 Stuck-up, ‘purse-proud’—a form of snobbishness very common in those who have risen in the world. 1861Sala Dutch Pict. xvi. 252 Versailles is one of the dreariest,..most stuck-up places I know. 1863Kingsley Water-Bab. i. 6 Tom..considered him a stuck-up fellow, who gave himself airs. 1869Trollope He Knew etc. xxxv. (1878) 196 She has no stuck-up ideas about herself. 1903Bridges Socialist in Lond. 182 Poet. Wks. (1913) 430 The degrading pestiferous fuss Of stuck-up importance.
Hence stuckˈuppishness.
1853Chamb. Jrnl. XX. 307 We leave Ramsgate, then, with its ‘stuckuppishness’ and stiff and formal society. 1875M. E. Braddon Hostages to Fortune I. ii. 56 Thank heaven it is not a perky modern place, all stucco and stuckupishness. |