Airs

Definition: Airs

Airs

Noun

1. Affected manners intended to impress others; "don't put on airs with me".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "airs" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Literature

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AIRS

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Synonym: Airs

Affectation

Verb: affect, act a part, put on; give oneself airs; (arrogance); boast; coquet; simper, mince, attitudinize, pose; flirt a fan; overact, overdo.

Charlatanism, quackery, shallow profundity; pretension, airs, pedantry, purism, precisianism, euphuism; teratology; (altiloquence).

Insolence

Verb: be insolent; Adjective: bluster, vapor, swagger, swell, give oneself airs, snap one's fingers, kick up a dust; swear; (affirm); rap out oaths; roister. arrogate; assume, presume; make bold, make free; take a liberty, give an inch and take an ell.

Noun: insolence; haughtiness; Adjective: arrogance, airs; overbearance; domineering; Verb: tyranny.

Pride

Verb: be proud; Adjective: put a good face on; look one in the face; stalk abroad, perk oneself up; think no small beer of oneself; presume, swagger, strut; rear one's head, lift up one's head, hold up one's head; hold one's head high, look big, take the wall, " bear like the Turk no rival near the throne ", carry with a high hand; ride the high horse, mount on one's high horse; set one's back up, bridle, toss the head; give oneself airs; (assume); boast.

Vanity

Have too high an opinion of oneself, have an overweening opinion of oneself, have too high an opinion of one's talents; blind oneself as to one's own merit; not think small beer of oneself, not think vin ordinaire of oneself; put oneself forward; fish for compliments; give oneself airs; (assume); boast.

Airs, affected manner, pretensions, mannerism; egotism; priggism, priggishness; coxcombry, gaudery, vainglory, elation; pride; ostentation; assurance.

Crosswords: Airs

He took advantage of me. An' if you fine, fancy gentlemen ain't gonna do nothin' about it, then you're just a bunch of lousy, yella, stinkin' cowards, the - the whole bunch of ya, and your fancy airs don't come to nothin'. (To Kill a Mockingbird; writing credit: Harper Lee; Horton Foote)

As though I put on airs. ("My Sick Mind"; performing artist: The Roches)

Putting on Airs (1925)

Max dans les airs (1914)

Airs (1976)

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Books

• Airs & Graces (reference)

• Airs Above the Ground (reference)

• AIRS Source Book (reference)

• Des Airs de Grammaire/Book and Cassette (Intermediate Level) (reference)

• Irish Session Tunes: 100 Irish Dance Tunes and Airs (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Fiddler's Guide to Waltz's, Airs and Haunting Melodies (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Airs Above Your Station (reference)

• Airs and Graces (reference)

• Preludes, Airs & Yodels (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Grandes fêtes aérostatitiques le mardi 14 juillet 1868 gayant s'élevant dans les airs.Credit: Library of Congress.

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And her caro sposo, and her resources, and all her airs of pert pretension and underbred finery.

Gavroche besides kept up with all the popular airs in circulation, and mingled with them his own warbling.

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Civil Liberties

Kenya

KTN, a subsidiary of the East African Standard group of newspapers that is owned by KANU supporters, airs news programs with more balanced political coverage than KBC. KTN broadcasts in Nairobi and Mombasa. (references)

Jordan

The amendments reinforce existing Penal Code restrictions on free speech and allow for the prosecution of any person found to have written, published, or aired any statements "harmful to national unity; instigating criminal actions; sowing the seeds of hatred and malice; inciting divisions among members of the society; instigating acts of religious and racial fanaticism; insulting the dignity of individuals, their reputation or personal freedoms; committing acts of corruption or publishing false information or rumors; inciting people to organize strikes or sit-ins, or to hold meetings in a manner that violates the law; or committing any act considered harmful to the state's reputation and dignity." The amendments give the State Security Court the authority to temporarily or permanently close any publication or media outlet that publishes or airs any such statements. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "airs": airs and frills ♦ airs and graces ♦ coquettish airs ♦ give oneself airs ♦ put on airs. Additional references.

Ending with "airs": wop-airs.

Afrikaan

allure. (various references)

Albanian

sillem si i rëndshëm (give oneself airs). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تباهى (blow, boast, brag, give oneself airs, make a hit, parade, plume, pride, show off, take a pride, take a pride in, talk big), ‏ثرثر (babble, blab, blabber, bluster, chatter, clack, clatter, crack, gabble, gas, gibber, give oneself airs, gossip, jabber, jangle, jaw, natter, palaver, patter, prate, prattle, quack, rap, rumble, shoot one's mouth off, smatter, talk, tattle, twaddle, twitter, yap). (various references)

Bulgarian 

маниерчене (airs and graces), превземки (airs and graces, la-di-da), позьорство (affected manners, airs and graces, pose). (various references)

Chinese 

宣扬 (Aired, Airing). (various references)

Dutch

allure. (various references)

Esperanto

imponeco. (various references)

Faeroese

gera seg upp (attitudinize, pose, put on airs). (various references)

Finnish

rehennellä (put on airs, show off, swagger), olla olevinaan (attitudinize, be haughty, pose, put on airs, ride the high horse), hienostella (give oneself airs, show off), diivamaiset eleet (airs and graces). (various references)

French

agir avec affectation (put on airs), se parer (give oneself airs), bavarder (give oneself airs). (various references)

Frisian

alluere. (various references)

German

lüftet. (various references)

Greek 

καμώματα (airs and graces, antics, carryings on, histrionics, sham), όλο ύφος και καμώματα (all airs and graces), μεγαλοπιάνομαι (put on airs). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"תרברב (bluster, boast, brag, give oneself airs, swank, talk big). (various references)

Hungarian

megjátssza magát (to be putting on show, to give oneself airs, to put on airs, to take airs), affektál (attitudinize, pose, prim, put on airs, to attitudinize, to grimace, to make grimaces, to pose, to primp, to put on airs, to put on airs and graces), adja az előkelőt (to put it on, to put on airs, to take airs). (various references)

Indonesian

lagak. (various references)

Italian

posare (alight, attitudinize, bottom, grandstand, land, lay, laying, place, pose, put, put aside, put by, put down, put on airs, recline, rest, set, set down, sit, switch off, turn off). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

見� ��'はる (to be pretentious, to put on airs), 物�" (air of importance, body, object, overemphasis, superior airs), お高く留まる (to assume an air of importance, to put on airs), 澄ます (look prim, put on airs, to be unruffled, to clear, to look demure, to look unconcerned, to make clear), 気取る (to affect, to put on airs, to sense, to suspect), 役人風 (airs of an official), �"裁振る (to put on airs), 容�"振る (to put on airs), 勿�"振る (to assume importance, to put on airs), 勿�"ぶる (to assume importance, to put on airs), 勿�" (air of importance, overemphasis, superior airs). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

すます (look prim, put on airs, to be unruffled, to clear, to conclude, to finish, to get along, to get it over with, to look demure, to look unconcerned, to make clear, to pay back, to settle), おたかくとまる (to assume an air of importance, to put on airs), きどる (to affect, to put on airs), やくに�"かぜ (airs of an official), もったいぶる (to assume importance, to put on airs), もったい (air of importance, overemphasis, superior airs), よう� いぶる (to put on airs), みえ�'はる (to be pretentious, to put on airs, to show off), ていさいぶる (to put on airs). (various references)

Korean 

�"람쐰다. (various references)

Pig Latin

airsay

Portuguese

afetação (affectation, affectedness, assumption, courtliness, coxcombry, frill, mannerist, namby-pamby, pomposity, preciosity, pretence, pretense, pretension, primness), vaidade (conceit, concetto, flatulency, flatulent, presumption, pretension, pride, self-conceit, self-importance, vainglory, vanity, vaunt), presunção (arrogance, assumption, assurance, conceit, concetto, coxcombry, daring, immodesty, inflation beyond control, Prague, presumption, pretension, puppyism, self sufficiency, self-assurance, self-conceit, self-importance, self-support, surmise, swagger, swank, vainglory, vanity). (various references)

Romanian

rãţoialã (blowing up), pretenţii, ifose (air, bumbledom). (various references)

Russian 

притворство (affectation, affectations, assumption, dissemblance, dissimulation, false pretences, feint, hypocrisy, make believe, make-believe, sham, simulation). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

praviti se važan (cut a dash, give oneself airs, show off). (various references)

Spanish

darse tono (attitudinize, pose, posture, put it on, put on airs, swank), ser presuntuoso (attitudinize, pose, put on airs), ponerse (attitudinize, become, begin, come over, commence, Don, draw on, dress, garb, get, get down, get dressed, get into, get on, go, go down, go in, gown, grow, jump on, live, pose, pull on, put forward, put on, put on airs, put oneself, slip on, start, tag on, throw on, turn, turn about, turn around, up, wax, wear). (various references)

Swedish

förnäm min. (various references)

Turkish

kurum (conceit, corporation, establishment, foundation, haughtiness, institute, institution, pose, shop, smut, soot, swagger, vanity), hava (aerial, aero-, air, ambiance, ambience, aroma, atmosphere, atmospheric, aura, climate, Flavor, flavour, mood, ostentation, shades, showing off, side, sky, splash, splurge, strain, swank, vanity, weather, wind), fiyaka (air, blazon, blazonry, gimmickry, show off, showing off, splash, spruceness, swank), caka (air, gimmickry, ostentation, panache, show off, showing off, swagger), çalım (air, feint, ostentation, pass, side, strut, strutting, swagger, swank, trick). (various references)

Turkmen 

howala. (various references)

Ukranian 

триматися зарозуміло (give oneself airs, lump large), не прийняти до уваги (give oneself airs), задаватися (bridle, give oneself airs, seem). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "airs": airscape, airscapes, airscrew, airscrews, airshed, airsheds, airship, airships, airsick, airsickness, airsicknesses, airspace, airspaces, airspeed, airspeeds, airstream, airstreams, airstrike, airstrikes, airstrip, airstrips. (additional references)

Words ending with "airs": affairs, armchairs, backstairs, bedchairs, chairs, cochairs, corsairs, crosshairs, deairs, despairs, disrepairs, downstairs, eclairs, fairs, flairs, funfairs, glairs, hairs, highchairs, horsehairs, impairs, lairs, longhairs, maidenhairs, mairs, midairs, mohairs, pairs, pushchairs, repairs, shorthairs, stairs, unhairs, unrepairs, upstairs, vairs, wairs, wheelchairs, wirehairs. (additional references)

Words containing "airs": hairsbreadth, hairsbreadths, hairsplitter, hairsplitters, hairsplitting, hairsplittings, hairspring, hairsprings, hairstreak, hairstreaks, hairstyle, hairstyles, hairstyling, hairstylings, hairstylist, hairstylists. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Airs" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aacs, aards, Aarg, Aarp, Abiru, abrs, aeires, Aeres, Aeros, aers, Aerts, agirs, aias, aics, aier, aiere, aieres, aiers, ains, Aira, airas, airc, aircr, aird, aire, aires, airest, airi, airis, airn, airns, Airo, airt, airts, Aisb, aiso, aissf, aits, aiws, amirs, aprs, aqire, ares, arez, arib, Arics, arif, ariq, aris, Ariss, arist, Arix, ariz, ars, arz, Asri, Asrs, atrs, aures, Avibras, axire, ayers, ayerst, Ayra, ayres, Ayris, Aziru, azis, Iahs, Iirc, Iqrs, irrs, irz, nirs, rairs, uires, vairs, virs, wairz. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: rias, sari.

-1 letter: air, ais, ars, ras, ria, sir, sri.

-2 letters: ai, ar, as, is, si.

+1 letter: abris, airns, airts, amirs, arias, arils, arise, arris, arsis, astir, auris, fairs, fiars, hairs, izars, lairs, laris, liars, liras, mairs, naris, pairs, paris, ragis, raias, raids, rails, rains, raise, rakis, ranis, rials, sabir, sarin, saris, serai, simar, sirra, sitar, sizar, stair, stria, tarsi, vairs, wairs.

+2 letters: aeries, afrits, agrias, aiders, aimers, airbus, airers, airest, airths, aivers, aorist, argils, ariels, ariose, ariosi, arioso, arisen, arises, arista, aristo, armies, aroids, arshin, arsine, arsino, artist, ashier, aspire, aswirl, aurist, bairns, braids, brails, brains, braise, brasil, briars, cairds, cairns, capris, caries, cerias, chairs, cigars, crasis, crissa, crista, darics, deairs, dinars, disarm, disbar, drails, drains, easier, ericas, fakirs, faqirs, ferias, flairs, frails, fraise, friars, garish, glairs, grails, grains, gratis, ihrams, inarms, instar, invars, irades, isobar, ixoras, kafirs, kaiser, kauris, kraits, lairds, liards, libras, lidars, marish, mbiras, mirzas, nadirs, nairas, norias, paries, parish, parvis, praise, praxis, primas, rabbis, rabies, rachis, racism, racist, radios, radish, radius, raised, raiser, raises, raisin, rakish, ramies, ranids, raphis, rapids, rapist, rasing, ratios, ravins, ravish, rawins, rawish, redias, resaid, resail, riatas, riojas, ripsaw, rivals, riyals, sabirs, safari, sagier, sailer, sailor, santir, sarins, satire, satori, savior, scoria, serail, serais, serial, shaird, shairn, sharif, shikar, sierra, simars, sirdar, sirrah, sirras, sistra, sitars, sizars, souari, sparid, spiral, spirea, sprain, stairs, strain, strait, strati, striae, tapirs, tarsia, terais, tiaras, traiks, trails, trains, traits, triacs, triads, trials, uraris, urbias, urials, varies, vicars, virgas, visard, yairds, zaires, zirams.

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