SUPERCILIOUS
ADJECTIVES
► CAVALIER haughty, disdainful, supercilious → 1981 colloq. (Bk.)
► HIGH-NOSED arrogant, supercilious; intellectual, pretentious → L18 sl.
► HIGH-SIGHTED looking upward, supercilious, haughty → 1601 obs.
► LARDY-DARDY characteristic of an affected swell; languidly foppish; supercilious → 1861 sl.
► SNIFTY-SNIDEY a slang expression for supercilious, disdainful → 19C Eng. dial.
► SNOOTY snobbish, arrogant, haughty and disdainful; supercilious; unpleasant → 1919 Amer. sl.
► SNOTTY supercilious and disdainful; contemptible, nasty → 1926 sl.
► STIFF-ARSED ► STIFF-ASSED supercilious, stand-offish → 1937 US sl.
► SUPER-SILLY-OUS supercilious → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► TOFFEE-NOSED supercilious, conceited, snobbish → sl.
NOUNS – PERSON
► PUKE a supercilious person → Irish sl.
► PYOCK a supercilious person → Irish sl.
VERBS
► FANCY PANTS to act like a dandy or snob; to act in an arrogant, or supercilious manner → 1936 Amer. sl.
► LARDY-DARDY to act the swell, to act in a supercilious manner → 1887 sl.
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