Reverse Dictionary: PRIDE

(also see PROUD)

ADJECTIVES
► FASTIDIOUS full of pride; disdainful; scornful → c1440 obs.
► PRIDING affecting or displaying pride → 1592 obs.
► TO-BOLLEN puffed up with pride or swollen with anger → a1225 obs.

NOUNS
► BIGOTTY pride, conceit, haughtiness → 1884 Eng. dial.
► BOBANCE presumptuous boasting, pride, pomp, arrogance, vanity → c1325 obs.
► FASTIDIE pride, haughtiness→ 1536 obs.
► FASTIDIOUSNESS disdainfulness, haughtiness, pride → 1613 obs.
► HAUTAINESSE haughtiness, pride, arrogance → 1297 obs.
► HAUTESSE highness, height; loftiness of rank or character; nobility; haughtiness, pride; grandeur, stateliness; length of time → a1300 obs.
► HIGH-HEELED SHOES pride → 1905 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► HUBRIS presumption; pride, excessive self-confidence → 1884
► JAISTER swagger, pride of manner and gait → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► LUGS proud manners → 1905 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► MASS pride, haughtiness, self-conceit → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► NACHES a sense of pleasure or pride, esp. at the achievements of one’s children → 1929 esp. Jewish usage
► ORGEL ► ORGHEL ► ORHEL pride, haughtiness → a1023 obs.
► ORGELNESS pride, haughtiness, disdain → a1000 obs.
► ORGUEIL ► ORGUIL ► ORGUL pride, haughtiness, disdainfulness → c1200 obs.
► ORGULITY pride, haughtiness, disdainfulness → 1470-85 obs.
► PENSIENESS excessive pride in oneself; conceitedness → 1825 Sc. (Bk.)
► PRIDE OF LIFE worldly pride or ostentation, vainglory → c1384 arch.
► PRIDING a showing pride → 1594 obs.
► PURSE-PRIDE the pride or arrogance of the wealthy → 1648
► SAUCE vanity, pride, display → 1793 Sc.
► STOMACH pride
► SWOLLEN HEAD excessive pride, conceit → 1899 colloq.
► TYPHUS pride, haughtiness, conceit → 1643 literary usage
► VAINGLORINESS vaingloriousness → 1820
► VAINGLORY glory that is vain, empty or worthless; inordinate or unwarranted pride in one’s accomplishments or qualities; disposition or tendency to exalt oneself unduly; idle boasting or vaunting → a1300

NOUNS – PERSON
► SWOLLEN HEAD a person suffering from excessive pride; a conceited person → 1928 colloq.

VERBS
► BURST ONE’S BUTTONS ► BUST ONE’S BUTTONS to swell with pride → 1966 Amer. dial.
► CUT ONE’S COMB to humble someone; to lower someone’s pride → 1741 Amer. dial.
► HUFFLE to puff or elevate with pride → a1652 obs.
► KVELL to feel or show great happiness, pride, or satisfaction; to exult, to rejoice → 1940 colloq., esp. Jewish usage
► PIQUE to take pride in → 1789 US
► SHEP NACHES to gain pride, pleasure, or satisfaction → 1968 Yiddish usage
► TO-BELL to be puffed up with pride or swollen with anger → a1225 obs.
► TYMPANIZE to inflate, to puff up with pride, etc. → 1593 obs.