单词 | high-hatted |
释义 | high-hattedadj. 1. Wearing a tall hat. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > wearing headgear > wearing a hat > types of flat-headed1667 straw-hattedc1730 beavered1742 cocked-hatted1821 slouch-hatted1826 high-hatted1858 plug-hatted1869 sun-helmeted1886 pot-hatted1888 sou'-westered1891 cowboy-hatted1896 sombreroed1899 top hat1902 picture-hatted1906 bowler-hatted1909 sailor-hatted1909 tile-hatted1924 Stetsoned1935 trilbied1966 trilby-hatted1975 1858 London Rev. Oct. 118 Threading our way along the river that runs through this town, we frequently fell in with groups—and picturesque groups they were—of high-hatted women and low-crowned men. 1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. III 158 Beaker in hand, amid the orange-trees, At Micklegarth, and the high-hatted man, Over against him, with his visage wan. 1910 Harper's Mag. Oct. 796/2 These gloved and white-spatted and high-hatted and morning-coated shapes beside them are their ministering phantasms? 1973 B. Rubens Go tell Lemming iv. 59 It was a Czech film and the high-hatted lady in front of her obscured the subtitles. 2012 N.Z. Herald (Nexis) 16 Feb. I'll never forget the line of high-hatted chefs..ferrying hundreds of beautifully presented tasting plates to us. 2. Originally and chiefly U.S. = high hat adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > pretension to superiority > [adjective] taunt?a1534 cocket1537 fastuous?1591 cobbing1599 whalebone1602 airy1606 fastigious1625 flatuous1630 high and mighty1633 vapouring1647 flatulent1658 hoity-toity1690 jackanapish1696 superior1711 penseful1788 uppish1789 pensy1790 stuck-up1812 glorified1821 toploftical1823 pretentious1832 sophomoric1837 highty-tighty1847 snippy1848 jumped-up1852 set-up1856 toplofty1859 cock-aloft1861 high-tone1864 high-toned1866 pretensivea1868 fancy-pants1870 hunched1870 snotty1870 head-in-air1880 uppity1880 jackanapsian1881 airified1882 sidey1898 posh1914 upstage1918 snooty1919 high-hatted1924 hincty1924 snot-nosed1941 posho1989 1924 H. Crane Let. 24 Jan. (1965) 171 It's become fashionable for the high-hatted uptowners now to buy Matisse's paintings. 1955 J. M. Cohen tr. F. Rabelais Hist. Gargantua & Pantagruel iii. Prol. 286 As for those high-hatted pettifoggers who are always on the look-out for mistakes, do not mention them to me. 1986 D. Akenson Orangeman xv. 264 He remembered only too well his being barred from Cabinet office by MacNab and his high-hatted cronies. 2000 K. Govier Truth Teller x. 218 It had taken Francesca's high-hatted intervention, and a growing queue behind, to get them through. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1858 |
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