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单词 high-hat
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high-hatv.

Brit. /ˈhʌɪˌhat/, U.S. /ˈhaɪˈˌhæt/
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: high hat n.
Etymology: < high hat n. (compare slightly later sense 2 at that entry).
colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.).
transitive. To treat condescendingly. Cf. high hat n. 2.
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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.
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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).
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