to make it quaint: to behave or speak in an ingenious or elaborate manner esp. in order to mislead; to dissemble; to behave in a courteous or…

Phrases. to have pepper in the nose: to behave superciliously or contemptuously. to take pepper in the nose, to snuff pepper: to take offence…

To act in the supposed manner of a lord; to behave in an arrogant, disdainful, or dissipated manner… intransitive. From the 17th cent. usually with…

To act in the supposed manner of a lord; to behave in an arrogant, disdainful, or dissipated manner… transitive with it. From the 17th cent. usually…

to stand (also be, walk,etc.) upon (one's) pantofles: to affect an air of superiority; to behave pompously or conceitedly. Obsolete.

intransitive. To play the cavalier. Also transitive with it.

To assert or maintain certain terms or conditions; to maintain one's position, to hold one's own, to refuse to give in. Now rare.

transitive. To treat condescendingly. Cf. high hat, n. 2.