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STUCK UP

Specialty Definition: STUCK UP

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Literature

Stuck Up An Australian phrase for robbed on the highway. (See Gone Up .). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: STUCK UP

English words defined with "STUCK UP": stand up, stick up. (references)
Specialty definitions using "STUCK UP": buisness classNOSE. (references)

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Modern Usage: STUCK UP

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I've got some old man's chopsticks stuck up my ass and all you can say is sorry (Rush Hour 2; writing credit: Jeff Nathanson)

I said your car is slow, and your girlfriend is a stuck up little bitch (The Last Race; writing credit: Alex Ranarivelo)

These underpants cost me a quid, and I've got about fifty pence worth stuck up my arse (The Royle Family; writing credit: Caroline Aherne; Craig Cash)

My arms will end up at Essex, my torso in Norfolk, and my genitalia stuck up in a tree somewhere in Rutland (The Black Adder; writing credit: Richard Curtis; Rowan Atkinson)

Lyrics

But all of her friends, stuck up their nose (Sk8er Boi; performing artist: Avril Lavigne)

And if you're stuck up (Break Stuff; performing artist: Limp Bizkit)

Movie/TV Titles

Pathé Manhattan Comedies: All Stuck Up (1930)

All Stuck Up (1920)

Terribly Stuck Up (1915)

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Use in Literature: STUCK UP

TitleAuthorQuote

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Big Bill grasped his cup around the top so that the spoon stuck up between his first and second fingers

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: STUCK UP

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

stuck up

11
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Modern Translation: STUCK UP

Language Translations for "STUCK UP"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

mendjemadh (arrogant, conceited, haughty, proud-spirited, self-conceited, vain, vainglorious), kryelartë (arrogant, cavalier, cocksy, cocky, conceited, consequential, haughty, high, lofty, lordly, proud, proud-stomached, supercilious, toplofty). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏متشامخ (snooty, supercilious, superior). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

надменен (airy, aloof, arrogant, assuming, assumptive, contemptuous, cool, disdainful, haughty, high, high and mighty, imperious, lofty, offhand, offish, overbearing, overweening, prideful, proud, proud-stomached, remote, scornful, stand offish, stiff, sublime, supercilious, superior, top-lofty, uppish). (various references)

   

Czech

  

nafoukaný (bigheaded, bumptious, cocksy, cocky, overweening), ješitný (conceited, holier-than-thou, vain). (various references)

   

French

  

prétentieux, chiqué (stuck). (various references)

   

German

  

hochnäsig (arrogant, snootily, snooty, supercilious, uppish, uppity, upstage), hochgestochen (highbrow, high-falutin, pompous, pretentious, pseud), affig (affected, apish, apishly, arty, conceited, La-di-da, ludicrous, ridiculous, silly, too-too). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ξιπασμένοσ (above oneself, cocky, conceited, consequential, pretentious, uppish, vain), φαντασμένοσ (bumptious, cocky, conceited, coxcomb, hoity toity, jackanapes, ladida, opinionated, priggish, self-conceited, self-important, smug, snobbish, snooty, stuffed shirt, stuffy), αλαζών (arrogant, haughty, presumer, saucy, uppish), ψηλομύτης. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מת שא (lofty, lordly, snob, standoffish, supercilious, towering). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

nagyképû (boastful, opinionated, pompous), gõgös (arrogant, haughty, lofty, lordly, overweening). (various references)

   

Italian

  

borioso (snobbish, snooty). (various references)

   

Manx

  

kione froaishagh, corvianagh (big-headed, conceited, self-opinionated), ard-wannalagh (arrogant person, haughty, stubborn, superior). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

uckstay upay.(various references)

   

Romanian

  

îngâmfat (arrogant, assuming, bloated, bumptious, cock-a-hoop, conceited, flaunty, fop, haughtily, inflated, perky, presumptuous, self-conceited, self-pleasing, snooty, supercilious, swollen, vainglorious), înfumurat (arrogant, bumptious, haughty, jackanapes, opinioned, overweening, self sufficient, uppish, vain), încrezut (arrogant, assertive, bumptious, cocksure, cocky, conceited, high minded, jackanapes, opinioned, presuming, presumptuous, self confident, self-conceited, self-important, supercilious, uppish, vain), înţepat (haughty, sulky, sullen, supercilious). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

высокомерный (arrogant, assuming, cavalier, domineering, haughty, high and mighty, highbrow, insolent, overweening, proud-stomached, sniffy, snooty, stiff necked, stuck-up, supercilious, tossy, uppity). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

ohol (arrogant, disdainful, haughtly, haughty, hoity toity, huffy, magisterial, overbearing, overblown, proud, snippy, snooty, supercilious). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

presumido (attitudinizer, boastful, cocksure, conceited, hoity toity, pompous, poseur, presumptuous, pretentious, prig, priggish, self-assertive, self-conceited, self-important, show off, smug, snooty, vain, vainglorious), estirado (drawn, extended, formal, pompous, prim, Sniffy, starchy, stiff, stiff necked, stretched, stretched tight, tense, tight, tight-fisted, vain), engreído (bighead, bigheaded, bumptious, conceited, snotty nosed, snotty-faced, uppity, vain), echado (ejection, junk, laid, lazy, lying, well-placed), altanero (arrogant, bumbling, haughty, high and mighty, lofty, pride, proud, snooty, snuffy, supercilious, upstage). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

uppblåst (flatulent, inflated, pompous, puffed, puffed up, swollen-headed, windy), inbilsk (arrogant, conceited, self-opinionated, stuck-up, vain, vainglorious, vainly). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kibirli (arrogant, as proud as lucifer, assuming, bumptious, cavalier, conceited, consequential, disdainful, haughty, high-flown, hoity toity, holier-than-thou, hubristic, important, lofty, lordly, overweening, pontifical, proud, Sniffy, snooty, stiff necked, stuffy, supercilious, superior, uppish, uppity, upstage, vain), kendini beğenmiş (arrogant, assuming, bighead, bigheaded, bumptious, cavalier, chesty, cocky, conceited, egotistical, haughty, high hat, high-flown, high-flying, hoity toity, hoity-toity, holier-than-thou, important, insufferable, jackanapes, jumped-up, mugwump, overweening, pompous, pretentious, prig, priggish, self sufficient, self-important, self-opinionated, self-righteous, smug, Sniffy, snooty, snotty, stuffed shirt, stuffy, supercilious, swelled head, swollen-headed, taffy-nosed, toffee-nosed, toffy-nosed, uppish, uppity, upstage, vain), burnu havada (cocky, Sniffy, very conceited). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

самовдоволений (cock-a-hoop, complacent, coxcombical, jaunty, opinioned, prick-eared, self-approving, self-complacent, self-righteous, self-satisfied, smug), зарозумілий (arrogant, audacious, contemptuous, dogmatic, dogmatical, domineering, high and mighty, highbrow, insolent, lordly, overbearing, overly, overweening, proud, self-conceited, self-explanatory, self-important, snooty, stately, stiff necked, topping, upstage). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: STUCK UP

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-k-p-s-t-u-u"

-1 letter: cutups.

-2 letters: cutup, pucks, stuck, tucks.

-3 letters: cups, cusk, cusp, cuts, puck, puts, scup, scut, suck, tuck, tups, tusk.

-4 letters: cup, cut, pus, put, sup, tsk, tup, ups, uts.

-5 letters: up, us, ut.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Modern
3. Quotations: Fiction
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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