Reverse Dictionary: DISDAIN

ADJECTIVES
► CAVALIER haughty, disdainful, supercilious → 1981 colloq. (Bk.)
► DAINFUL disdainful → c1530 obs.
► DEIGNOUS disdainful, proud, haughty, scornful → c1330 obs.
► FARTLEBERRIED term of disdain to a person → 1948 sl.
► FASTIDIOUS disdainful, scornful; full of pride → c1440 obs.
► FASTUOUS disdainful, proud, haughty, arrogant; pretentious, ostentatious → a1638
► HIGH-HEELED haughty, arrogant, disdainful → 1903 Amer. dial.
► HIGH-STOMACHED disdainful, haughty, proud, obstinate, of high courage or spirit → 1548 obs.
► IN-YOUR-FACE disdainful; disrespectful; provocative; unashamed → 1978 Amer. sl.
► LORDING powerful, dominating, having presiding authority or influence; also, behaving in an arrogant, disdainful, or dissipated manner → 1548
► MIGHTY disdainful, stately, haughty → 1905 Sc. & Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► NOSE-IN-THE-AIR disdainful, haughty → 1882
► ORGEL ► ORGHEL ► ORHEL disdainful, proud, haughty, presumptuous → c1200 obs.
► ORGILLOUS ► ORGULOUS disdainful, proud, haughty → c1250 arch.
► ORGUEIL ► ORGUIL ► ORGUL disdainful, proud, haughty, presumptuous → a1275 obs.
► SANSHACH disdainful, haughty, saucy, surly, snappish → 1825 Sc.
► SAUCY disdainful, scornful → 1716 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► SCANCE disdainful, proud, haughty; distant in manner → 1904 Sc. (Bk.)
► SKEIGH disdainful, shy, coy, proud; esp. said of women → c1560 Sc.
► SNIDEY disdainful, sneering; contemptuous → 1964 UK sl.
► SNIFFY disdainful, scornful; haughtily fastidious; fault-finding → 1871 sl.
► SNIFTY disdainful, haughty, fault-finding; petty, mean → 1871 Amer. sl.
► SNIFTY-SNIDEY disdainful, supercilious → 19C Eng. dial.
► SNOOTY disdainful, snobbish, arrogant, haughty; supercilious; unpleasant → 1919 Amer. sl.
► SNOTTY disdainful, supercilious; contemptible, nasty → 1926 sl.
► SQUEAMOUS distant, disdainful, fastidious → 1325
► TOPLOFTICAL having a disdainful or superior attitude → 1823 colloq.

ADVERBS
► FASTIDIOUSLY disdainfully → 1624 obs.
► SKEIGH disdainfully, proudly → 1792 Sc.
► WITH ONE’S NOSE IN THE AIR in a disdainful manner → a1845

INTERJECTIONS & PHRASES
► BAF! an exclamation of disdain → 1700 Sc.
► CHA! ► CHO! an exclamation of disdain → 1827 Jamaica
► EAT IT! an exclamation of disdain → 1952 sl.
► FUCK A DUCK! an exclamation of surprise or disdain → 1993 US sl. (Bk.)
► POO! ► POOH! an exclamation of impatience, contempt, disdain → 1694
► SHEW! an exclamation of disdain → 1943 Amer. dial.
► SHOO! an exclamation of disdain → 1883 Amer. dial.

NOUNS
► DAIN disdain, dislike, distrust → a1400-1500 obs.
► DEDIGNATION disdain, scorn, contempt → c1400 obs.
► FASTIDIE disdain, scorn, contempt → 1538 obs.
► FASTIDIOUSNESS disdainfulness, haughtiness, pride → 1613 obs.
► FROIDEUR coldness of manner; indifference, disdain, reserve → 1645
► ORGELNESS disdain, pride, haughtiness → a1000 obs.
► ORGUEIL ► ORGUIL ► ORGUL disdainfulness, pride, haughtiness → c1200 obs.
► ORGULITY disdainfulness, pride, haughtiness → 1470-85 obs.
► SDEIGN disdain → 1594 obs.
► SPURN a treating with disdain or contemptuous rejection → 1604

NOUNS – PERSON
► SNUFFER a person who sniffs disdainfully → a1610

VERBS
► CHUMP OFF to disdain, to look down on → 1970s African-American sl.
► COCK ONE’S NEB ► COCK UP ONE’S NEB to behave disdainfully towards something; to ‘turn up one’s nose’ → 1870 Eng. dial.
► DAIN to disdain → a1400-50 obs.
► DEDIGNE to disdain, to scorn → 1623 obs.
► KECK to throw back the head with disdainful air; to raise oneself erect → 1740 Eng. dial.
► LOOK DOWN ONE’S NOSE to show disdain or scorn → 1921
► MAKE A PUSH AT to treat with disdain → 1600 obs.
► MOLLOP ► MOLLUP to toss the head in a haughty or disdainful way → 1838 Sc.
► NOT TO GIVE SNOW WATER to regard with disdain or contempt → 1904 Amer. dial.
► POOH to extreme contempt or disdain for → 1858
► POOH-POOH to express contempt or disdain for; to ridicule; to dismiss as silly or unimportant → 1823
► RANK to disdain, to disparage → 1930s US sl.
► SCAN to look with disdain or disgust → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SCOOT to reject with disdain, to flout, to disparage → 1827 Sc.
► SDEIGN to disdain → 1590 obs.
► SMILE to treat with disdain or contempt; to deride, to laugh at → 1608 obs.
► SNOOT to disdain, to snub; to behave haughtily toward → 1928 sl.
► SNOT to treat someone disdainfully, to be haughty → 1970s Amer. sl.
► TURN UP ONE’S NOSE to show disdain or scorn → 1721
► WAFT to turn the eyes aside with a disdainful movement → 1611