snooty
Plural: snooties
Adjective Satellite
- (used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant; -Laurent Le Sage
Adj
- Haughty, pompous, snobbish; inclined to turn up one's nose.
- Of an event, a thing, etc.: elite, exclusive.
- Easily angered or irritated; irritable, short-tempered.
Noun
- Synonym of snoot (“an elitist or snobbish person”).
Adjective
- Haughty or supercilious; disdainful or snobbish.
Examples
- Her parties were snooty affairs; custom-designed cocktail dresses that cost more than a decent luxury car were de rigueur.
- Her SNOOTY remark about my vocabulary made the Scrabble game less enjoyable.
- Sir Sydney was an arrogant, snooty, bigoted prig, so it was with some satisfaction that I wrote out his parking ticket.
Origin / Etymology
The adjective is derived from snoot (“(UK, dialectal, and slang) snout; nose”) + -y (suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘having the quality of’), probably referring to a snobbish person often having their nose in the air (that is, acting disdainfully towards others). Snoot is a dialectal variant of snout.
The noun is derived from the adjective.
Synonyms
bigheaded, persnickety, snot-nosed, snotty, stuck-up, too big for one's breeches, uppish, airy, arrogant, authoritarian, big-headed, biggity, blustery, boastful, bombastic, buggish, cocky, conceited, disdainful, domineering, egotistical, entitled, flatulent, flaunting, full of oneself, grandiose, hankty, haught, haughty, haut, high and mighty, high-handed, high-hat, highfalutin, hoity-toity, holier-than-thou, imperious, inflated, insolent, la-di-da, ostentatious, overbearing, overweening, pompous, presumptuous, pretentious, priggish, puffed up, sanctimonious, self-important, snobbish, snoot, snooty, stout, stuck up, supercilious, thrasonic, thrasonical, toploftical, toplofty, tumid, turgid, uppity, uppy, upstage, vain
Scrabble Score: 9
snooty: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordsnooty: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
snooty: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary