Reverse Dictionary: CONCEIT

ADJECTIVES
► ABOVE ONESELF conceited, arrogant, self-important, presumptuous; overly ambitious → 1823
► AIRIFIED ► AIRYFIED conceited, given to putting on airs → 1933 Amer. dial.
► AIRY ostentatious, conceited, pretentious → 1827 Eng. dial.
► ALL THAT conceited → 1990 sl.
► ARSEY ► ARSY conceited, arrogant; having an exaggerated opinion of one’s own importance → 1993 UK sl.
► BEDDY conceited, self-sufficient, saucy, forward → 1706 Sc. & Ireland
► BIG conceited, proud, haughty, consequential → 1828 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► BIG DOINGS ► BIG-DOIN’S conceited, haughty, high-and-mighty → 1928 Amer. dial.
► BIGETY ► BIGGEDY ► BIGGETY ► BIGGITY ► BIGGOTY ► BIGOTTY conceited, vain, self-important; impudent, boastful → 1880 Amer. dial.
► BIG-FEELING conceited, haughty, proud, putting on airs → 1887 Amer. dial.
► BIGIFIED conceited, vain, stuck-up, self-important; impudent, boastful, egotistic → 1960 Amer. dial.
► BIGOTED conceited, vain, stuck-up, self-important; impudent, boastful, haughty → 1902 Amer. dial.
► BIGSEY ► BIGSIE ► BIGSY conceited, arrogant, proud; having an exaggerated sense of one’s own importance → 1881 Sc. colloq.​
► BOBBISH conceited, foppish → 1880 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BREEZY noisy; conceited → 1914 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► BUMPTIOUS offensively self-conceited; self-assertive → 1803 colloq.
► CANSIE speaking from self-conceit, pert → 1917 Sc.
► CARRIED conceited, vain, puffed up → 1892 Sc.
► CARRIED UP IN THE AIR conceited, vain, puffed up → 1892 Sc.
► CAT-WITTED conceited and silly, small-minded, obstinate, and spiteful; harebrained, whimsical → 1673
► CHEEKY AS A MAN ON THE TOWN nervy, overbearing, conceited → 1914 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► CHESTY conceited, arrogant → 1899 US sl.
► CHUFF pleasantly excited, pleased, delighted, proud, conceited → 1862 Eng. dial.
► CHUFFY conceited, proud, haughty; pleased, elated → 1874 Eng. dial.
► COCK-A-LOFT conceited, affectedly lofty, stuck up → 1862 colloq.
► COCK-HEADED conceited, vain, whimsical → 1888 Sc. (Bk.)
► COCKSHOUS conceited, self-confident → 19C Eng. dial.
► COCKY-SURE arrogantly self-confident or self-assured; smugly over-confident, arrogant, conceited, self-important → 1968 Amer. dial.
► COLOR-STRUCK conceited, vain, or egotistical because of the colour of one’s skin; preferring light-skinned to dark-skinned people → 1934 Amer. dial.
► CONSEQUENTIOUS conceited, proud; affectedly great; pompous → 1634 obs.
► CORK-HEADED conceited → 1914 US students’ sl. (Bk.)
► COXCOMBIC vain, conceited; pretentious, affected; foppish → 1730 obs.
► DENTY-CUM-PRETTY conceited and handsome → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► DICTY conceited, snobbish, haughty, uppity → 1923 Amer. dial.
► DITSY ► DITZY conceited → 1979 US sl.
► DORTY conceited, saucy, haughty, proud, stubborn; contemptuous → 1605 Sc.
► FESS conceited, cocky, impudent, over-confident; proud, stuck-up → 1891 Eng. dial.
► FESSY proud, conceited → 1883 Eng. dial.
► FINE-HAIRED conceited, arrogant; impressed with one’s own importance → 1901 Amer. dial.
► FLASH conceited, foolhardy, swaggering → 1892 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► FULL OF YOURSELF conceited, self-involved → 1866 UK
► GAINTERING having the appearance of assuming conceited airs → 1900 Sc. (Bk.)
► GUMPTIOUS conceited, proud → 1877 Amer. dial.
► HEAVED UP puffed up with conceit → 1746 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► HIGH IN THE INSTEP conceited, haughty, proud, arrogant → 1562 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► HIGH-HATTY conceited, haughty, snobbish, aloof → 1922 Amer. dial.
► HIGH-KICKED conceited, aspiring → 1891 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► HINCTY ► HINKTY conceited, snobbish, stuck-up, pretentious; contentious, unpleasant → 1924 US sl.
► HINKY conceited, snobbish; haughty; aloof; fastidious → 1967 Amer. sl., orig. African-American
► HOITY-TOITY conceited, haughty, snobbish, pretentious → 1713 sl.
► HUFFY puffed up with pride, conceited or self-esteem; haughty, blustering → 1677 obs.
► IKEY ► IKY conceited, proud → 1887 sl.
► JOURNEY-PROUD conceited because one has travelled → 1952 Amer. dial.
► JUMPED-UP conceited, self-important → 1835 Brit. sl.
► LAIRY ► LARY conceited, knowing, cheeky → M19 sl.
► MAGNIFICENT conceited, arrogant, high and mighty; self-important → 19C Brit. sl.
► MASSY conceited, self-important; boastful, bragging → 1816 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► MAWKY conceited, proud; peevish, discontented → 1854 Eng. dial.
► MORE AIRS THAN A COUNTRY STUD HORSE very conceited → 1996 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► NACKETY conceited → 1808 Sc.
► NAUNTLY conceited, jaunty → 1827 Eng. dial.
► NIMINY PIMINY spoiled, precious, conceited → 1868 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► OPINIATIVE conceited → 1574
► OPINIONATE conceited → 1603 obs.
► OPINIONATIVE conceited of, or proud; holding too high an opinion of → 1621 obs.
► OUT TO LUNCH conceited; snobbish → 1970 US students’ sl. (Bk.)
► OVER-PERTED self-conceited; made too pert or saucy → 1614 obs.
► PAPPY conceited, stiff with self-esteem, stuck-up, officious, pompous, puffed up with pride; presumptuous → 1881 Sc.
► PAUGHTY conceited, proud, haughty → 1572 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► PAUKY ► PAWKY conceited, proud, impudent, bold, precocious, forward, inquisitive; esp. used of children → 1801 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► PAWPY conceited, stiff with self-esteem, stuck-up, officious, pompous → 1865 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► PENSIFUL conceited, proud; giving oneself airs → 1788 Sc.
► PENSY conceited and proud, giving oneself airs; above one’s station; affected in manner → 1715 obs. exc. Sc. & Eng. dial.
► PERKISH conceited, pert or forward in manner; lively → 1870
► PERNICATED conceited, swaggering → 19C Amer. sl.
► POPULAR conceited → M19 sl.
► POUND-NOTEISH conceited → 1936 sl.
► POVIE self-conceited and spruce → 19C Sc.
► PRATCHANT conceited, forward, swaggering → 1597 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► PRICK-ME-DAINTY conceited, finicky in dress, language, and behaviour; affectedly dainty → 1820 chiefly Sc.
► PROSSY stuck-up, conceited, showing off → 1960 Amer. dial.
► PUFFY conceited → 1594
► PUPPYISH foolish; conceited; impertinent → 1775 obs.
► SADDITY ► SADIDDY ► SADITTY ► SEDITTY ► SIDDITY ► SIDITTY ► SIDITY conceited, arrogant, haughty, snobbish → 1967 Amer. dial., chiefly African-American sl.
► SAUCY conceited, proud, vain → 1712 Sc.
► SELF-CONCEITY conceited, impertinent → 1969 Amer. dial.
► SIDEY ► SIDY conceited → 1898 Brit. sl.
► SMART-ARSED conceited about one’s intelligence → 1960 US sl.
► SMUG of males: trim, neat, spruce, smart; later, having a self-satisfied, conceited or consciously respectable air → 1551
► SNIFTY conceited, disdainful, haughty, fault-finding; petty, mean → 1871 Amer. sl.
► SNIPPENY vain, conceited → 1945 US Western sl. (Bk.)
► SNIPPISH conceited, vain, pert → 1903 sl. (Bk.)
► SNIPPY vain, conceited → 1945 US Western sl. (Bk.)
► SNIPTIOUS conceited, vain, pert → 1903 sl. (Bk.)
► SNOTTY conceited, snobbish → 1870 sl.
► SNOTTY-NOSED conceited, snobbish → 1682 colloq.
► STIFF WITH FRILL very conceited, swaggering → 1892 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► STUCK-UP conceited; assuming airs, dignity, or importance → 1829 colloq.
► SWANKY conceited, arrogant, vulgar → 1900 sl.
► SWOLLEN-HEADED conceited → 1928 sl.
► TAUNT conceited, high and mighty → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► THROSSAN ► THROSSEN-UP conceited, stuck up; forward, pushy → 1892 Eng. dial.
► TOFFEE-NOSED conceited, snobbish, pretentious → 1925 sl., chiefly Brit.
► TOO BIG FOR ONE’S BOOTS conceited; disturbingly confident; unacceptably cocky → 1879 sl.
► TOO BIG FOR ONE’S BREECHES ► TOO BIG FOR ONE’S BRITCHES conceited; disturbingly confident; unacceptably cocky → 1835 sl.
► TOPPING conceited, arrogant, assertive; exhibiting a superior air → 1790 Amer. dial.
► TOPPY conceited, arrogant, assertive; exhibiting a superior air → 1908 Amer. dial.
► TURGENT swollen with pride or conceit; bumptious; also, using inflated language → 1621
► UP-BIG conceited, having a high opinion of oneself → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► UPHEADED conceited, self-confident, arrogant, haughty → 1826 Amer. dial.
► UPPER CRUST conceited, snobbish, upper-class → 1836 colloq.
► UPSET conceited, stuck up → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► UPSTAGE conceited, snobbish, haughty and standoffish → 1900 US theatrical sl.
► UPSTAGEISH conceited, snobbish → 1900 US theatrical sl.
► VAINSOME conceited, proud, vain → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► VAUDIE conceited, proud, vain, ostentatious → 1733 Sc.
► VOGGY conceited, vain, proud → 19C Sc.
► VOGIE conceited, vain, proud, elated, very pleased with oneself → 1712 Sc.

ADVERBS
► CHESTILY conceitedly, arrogantly → 1908 US
► CHESTY in a conceited way, arrogantly, → L19 sl.
► PAUGHTILY in a conceited or impertinent manner → 1838 Sc.

NOUNS
► BIG-HEAD conceit, arrogance → 1853 US
► BIGOTTY conceit, pride, haughtiness  → 1884 Eng. dial.
► COXCOMBERY conceitedness, vanity, pretentious affectation; foppery → 1774
► COXCOMBRY conceitedness, vanity, pretentious affectation; foppery → 1745
► EDGE conceit, self-importance, swagger → 1869 Eng. dial.
► EIGHTEEN PENCE conceit, show of importance → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► FALDERAL conceit, an idle fancy; nonsense; a trifling excuse; a falsehood → 1865 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► FALLAL conceit, humbug; nonsense, frivolous talk or behaviour → 1791 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► FANGLE a conceit, a whim → 1854 Eng. dial.
► FANGLER a conceit, a whim → 1859 Eng. dial.
► FLINK a conceited, jaunty air; a frolic, a flirtation; a good time, a ‘fling’ → 1882 Sc. & Eng. & Amer. dial.
► FRILL conceit, swagger, affectation → 1892 colloq. (Bk.)
► MASS self-conceit, pride, haughtiness → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► OPINION self-conceit, arrogance, dogmatism → 1588 obs.
► PAUGHTINESS conceit, arrogance, pomposity → 1913 Sc.
► PENSIENESS excessive pride in oneself; conceitedness → 1825 Sc. (Bk.)
► PUPPYISM impertinence; conceited; youthful naivety, inexperience → 1776
► SIDE conceit, pretentiousness; swagger → 1878 sl.
► SKITE conceit, boasting, boastfulness; ostentation, show → 1860 Aust. & NZ colloq.
► SUFFISANCE conceit, excess of self-confidence → 1781 obs.
► SWEENY self-conceit → 1854 US sl.
► SWELLED HEAD an excessively high opinion of oneself; conceit → 1891 colloq.
► SWELLHEAD conceit → 1867 US sl.
► SWOLLEN HEAD conceit → 1899 sl.
► TYPHUS pride, haughtiness, conceit → 1643 literary usage
► UPHEADEDNESS conceit, self-confidence, arrogance, haughtiness → 1832 Amer. dial.
► UPHEADINESS conceit, self-confidence, arrogance, haughtiness → 1963 Amer. dial.
► VENTOSITY an idle conceit; an instance of vanity → 1605

NOUNS – PERSON
► ABERCROMBIE a conceited person 1942 US sl. (Bk.)
► ALECK a conceited, unpleasant, smug person → 1919 sl.
► BACCALARE a self-conceited fellow; a coxcomb  → 1795 (Bk.)
► BAHAUDUR a conceited or self-important fellow → 1828 Anglo-Indian
► BALLOON HEAD a conceited, arrogant, or stupid person; a fool, a simpleton, a silly, empty-headed person → 1931 colloq., chiefly US
► BANTY a conceited, small, strutting person; a small, aggressive person → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BANTY-COCK a conceited small person → 1891 Eng. dial.
► BARBER’S CLERK a conceited, overdressed fellow who apes the manners of a gentleman → 1821 sl.
► BIG HEAD a conceited or arrogant person; also, a term of address → 1846 colloq.
► BIG IKE ► IKE a conceited, self-important, or pretentious person → 1902 Amer. dial.
► BIGITE a conceited person → 1967 Amer. dial.
► BIG WIG a conceited, pompous individual → 1890 sl. (Bk.)
► BILLY-NODDLE a fellow whose self-conceit leads him to suppose himself specially attractive to the other sex → 1890 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► BILLY-NOODLE a conceited ass; a man who firmly believes, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, that no woman can resist his a ladykiller → 1882 Aust. &  US sl.
► BIRKIE ► BIRKY a conceited young person → 1795 Sc.
► BIT OF STUFF a conceited, dressy young man; a man with full confidence in his appearance and abilities → 1828 UK sl.
► BOAST TOASTIE a conceited girl → 1942 US sl. (Bk.)
► BUBBLY-JOCK a conceited, pert, pragmatical fellow; a stupid boaster → 19C sl.
► CANAT ► KINAT ► KINNAT ► KINNATT a conceited, impertinent youngster → 20C Irish sl.
► CLEVER-BREECHES a conceited person → 1892 Eng. dial., ironic usage
► DICTY a conceited or uppity person; a stuck-up, snobbish person → 1928 Amer. dial.
► FANCY DAN a conceited, elegant man → 1943 US sl.
► FANCY PANTS a conceited, showily dressed person, esp. a man; a dandy; a snob → 1934 sl., orig. US
► FUZZYTAIL a conceited person → 1933 US prison sl.
► GAF-ISAAC a conceited, self-opinionated man → 1897 Eng. dial.
► GAG a conceited, foppish young fellow, who tries to figure as a swell → 1910 Ireland (Bk.)
► GAINTERER a person who puts on conceited airs → 1825 Sc. obs.
► GENTLEMAN a conceited, stuck-up, or pretentious person → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GIMCRACK a conceited fellow; an affected, showy, or worthless person; → 1618 obs.
► GLAMOUR BOY a conceited, glamorous fellow → 1939 US usually derisive usage
► GLORY BOY a conceited man who recklessly seeks glory → 1951 US military sl.
► GOULKGALISTER a pedantic, conceited fool; a wanton rustic; a simpleton → 1825 Sc.
► HAM a conceited person; a pretentious, affected person; esp. one who assumes or attempts to convey an impression of gentility not actually his → 1950 Amer. sl.
► HAVERIL a conceited, foolish fellow; a thoughtless gossip → 1801 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► HIGH HAT a conceited or wealthy person; an affected, supercilious, or condescending person; an aristocrat; a snob; a member of the social elite → 1923 US colloq., orig. theatrical usage
► HIGH-HATTER a conceited or arrogant person; a snob; a member of the social elite → 1942 Amer. dial.
► HIGH-HEAD a conceited or pretentious person → 1874 Amer. dial.
► HIGH POSTAGE a conceited female → 2006 Amer. college & university sl. (Bk.)
► HOT SHIT a male who thinks he is the greatest person alive; a conceited male → 2006 US sl. (Bk.)
► HUFF-SNUFF a conceited fellow who gives himself airs and is quick to take offense; a braggart; a hector; a blustering person → 1583 obs.
► JACK-A-DANDY a conceited fop; a petty dandy; a coxcomb; a conceited, empty-headed little fellow → 1632
► JACKANAPES a conceited coxcomb; one who is like an ape in tricks, airs, or behaviour; a ridiculous upstart; a pert, impertinent fellow who assumes ridiculous airs → 1534
► JACK-AT-WARTS a conceited little fellow; a little coxcomb → 1852 (Bk.)
► JACK STROP a conceited man who fancies himself a dashing buccaneer, but is better at boasting than acting; a bumptious or opinionated man → 1945 nautical sl.
► JAY a green, conceited fellow → 1893 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► MAYCOCK a conceited fellow; a coxcomb → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► NAB a conceited person; a person of note; an important person → 1796 Sc.
► NIMSHI a conceited fellow; a foolish fellow; one who habitually acts in a foolish manner; a mischievous child → 1848 Amer. dial.
► PAJOCK a conceited or vain person; a popinjay, a fop; a term of contempt → 1604
► PAW a conceited, dressed-up person → 1899 Sc.
► POD-KITE a conceited, puffed-up person, especially a pompous official → 1859 Eng. dial.
► POP-SQUIRT a conceited, pert man of small physique; an insignificant, pretentious fellow  → 1905 Amer. dial.
► PRICK-ME-DAINTY a person who is conceited and finicky in dress and carriage; one who affects airs of superiority; a dandy → 1529 chiefly Sc.
► PRIG a person who is offensively punctilious and precise in speech or behaviour; a conceited or self-important and didactic person → 1677
► PRINCOCK a conceited young fellow; a coxcomb; a pert, forward, saucy boy or youth → 1540 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► PUKE an affected, conceited person → 1930 Amer. dial.
► PUMPKIN a stupid, conceited, or self-important person → 1680 colloq., chiefly US
► PUPPY a foolish, conceited, or impertinent young man; a young man, esp. one who is inexperienced or naive → 1544 colloq., often derogatory
► PUPPYESS a foolish, conceited or impertinent young woman → 1791 obs.
► ROOSTER a conceited or lascivious person → L18 sl., now chiefly US
► SADDITY ► SEDDITY ► SIDITTY ► SIDITY a conceited, stuck-up, snobbish person → 1963 African-American sl.
► SADIT a conceited, stuck-up, snobbish person → 1982 African-American sl.
► SELF-BRAG a conceited person; a braggart → 1960 Amer. dial.
► SELF-BRAGGER a conceited person; a braggart → 1966 Amer. dial.
► SKIPJACK a conceited fop or dandy; a pert, shallow-brained fellow; a young, impudent person → 1554 arch.
► SKITE a conceited person; a braggart; a boastful person → 1906 Aust. & NZ colloq.
► SNIPPER-SNAPPER a conceited, small, insignificant fellow; an impertinent youth; an effeminate young fellow → 1590 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► SNOIT  a conceited young person, who speaks little; an upstart; a swaggerer; one who goes where he has no right to go; an intruder → 1824 Sc. obs.
► SNOOT a conceited, snobbish person; an arrogant person who sticks their nose in the air → 1938 sl.
► SWELLHEAD a conceited person; a person whose head is swollen with pride → 1845 US sl.
► SWOLLEN HEAD a person suffering from excessive pride; a conceited person → 1928 colloq.
► THING AND A HALF, A a conceited person, as indicative of the value he sets upon himself → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► VANDIE a self-conceited, vain fellow; a braggadocio → 1825 Sc.
► VAUNTIE a self-conceited, vain, vaunting fellow; a braggadocio → 1825 Sc.
► YOUNG SQUIRT a conceited or brainless person → 1914 Amer. dial. (Bk.)

PHRASES
► CUT A PERSON DOWN TO SIZE to decrease the conceit of → 1904
► MOPPING AND POPPING ABOUT a conceited and fantastical carriage → 1790 Eng. dial.
► SELL TICKETS ON ONESELF ► SELLING TICKETS ON HIMSELF said of a conceited person → 1999 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► TAKE ONE DOWN A BUTTON-HOLE to take the conceit out of him → 1593 colloq.

VERBS
► BE NO CAT-MUCK to have a good opinion of oneself, to be conceited → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BE UP ONE’S OWN ASS to be conceited, self-involved, or pretentious → 2014
► DISAPPEAR UP ONE’S OWN ARSE to become conceited, self-involved, or pretentious, typically to a degree which is abnormal or harmful → 1966 UK sl.
► FANCY ONESELF to be conceited, to have a good opinion of oneself → L19 sl.
► GAINTER to use conceited airs and gestures → 1825 Sc. obs.
► HAVE ON ONE’S HIGH-HEELED SHOES to be conceited or stuck-up → 1996 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► HAVE THE STOUTS to be conceited, too cocksure → 1996 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► HAVE TICKETS ON ONESELF to be conceited → 1918 Aust. sl.
► LIVE UP ONE’S OWN ASS to be conceited, self-involved, or pretentious → 1997
► NANTLE ► NAUNTLE to go about in a conceited, mincing, affected fashion → 1841 Eng. dial.
► PERCH to push oneself forward, esp. in a presumptuous or conceited manner → 1530 obs.
► PUT BEYOND ONESELF to render conceited → 1848 Ireland
► THINK ONE’S SHIT DOESN’T STINK to be very conceited; to be stuck up and self-impressed → 1947 Amer. sl.