单词 | high-hat |
释义 | high-hatv. colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.). transitive. To treat condescendingly. Cf. high hat n. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > haughtiness or disdainfulness > be haughty or disdainful [verb (intransitive)] to make it quainta1393 to have pepper in the nosea1400 lord1548 lord1563 to stand (also be, walk, etc.) upon (one's) pantofles1573 cavalier1594 to stand on (or upon) high terms1611 high-hat1922 the mind > emotion > pride > haughtiness or disdainfulness > treat haughtily or disdainfully [verb (transitive)] condescendc1460 boya1625 patronize1820 schoolmarm1903 ritz1911 high-tone1917 upstage1921 high-hat1922 infantilize1931 1922 E. Wilson Notebk. Feb. in Twenties (1975) 116 Upstage..high-hat..to crab someone or someone's act. 1923 E. Wilson Notebk. 11–12 Mar. in Twenties (1975) 137 You can't try to high-hat everybody and fall off chairs at the same time. 1941 N. Coward Austral. Visited iii. 15 The true representative American..is unpretentious... He dislikes being ‘ritz'd’ or ‘high-hatted’. 1965 New Statesman 7 May 730/2 Her ineffective efforts to make her sons ‘high-hat the neighbours’ and join the élite. 2010 C. Wills Lethal Bodies 141 Never liked him. He always high hatted the hired help. Derivatives ˈhigh-hatting n. ΚΠ 1923 N.Y. Times 7 Oct. ix. 2/1 High hatting, one artist patronizing another. 1929 C. E. Merriam Chicago 292 Dever's dignity was mistaken by some for ‘high-hatting’. 2013 Herald News (Passaic County, New Jersey) (Nexis) 25 Apr. d1 It looks like we're in for an evening of obnoxious high-hatting. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1922 |
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