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| Domain | Definition |
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. | |
Crosswords: STUCK UP |
| English words defined with "STUCK UP": stand up, stick up. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "STUCK UP": buisness class ♦ NOSE. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
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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| Title | Author | Quote |
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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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
stuck up | 11 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. | ||
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. | |
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