Sniffy

Definition: Sniffy

Sniffy

Adjective

1. Having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy; "some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines"; "haughty aristocrats"; "his lordly manners were offensive"; "walked with a prideful swagger"; "very sniffy about breaches of etiquette"; "his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air"; "shaggy supercilious camels"; "a more swaggering mood than usual"- W.L.Shirer.

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

Date "sniffy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1903. (references)

Synonyms: Sniffy

Crosswords: Sniffy

Books

• Baker Smurf's Sniffy Book (A Sniffy Book) (reference)

• Garfield Goes to a Picnic (Random House Sniffy Book) (reference)

• Richard Scarry's Lowly Worm Sniffy Book (Sniffy Book) (reference)

• Sniff! Sniff! (Bear in the Big Blue House Sniffy Bear) (reference)

• Sniffy the Mouse (reference)

  (more book examples)

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

Albanian

Që Bie Erë, Përbuzës (contemptuous, cynical, disdainful, pejorative, scornful, snooty), Përçmues (contemptuous, depreciatingly, disdainful, lofty, pejorative, scornful, withering). (various references)

Bulgarian 

Презрителен, �'мирисан, �'исокомерен. (various references)

Czech

Ve � patné Náladì, Páchnoucí (fetid, malodorous, nosey, smelly, stinking). (various references)

German

schnippisch (pert, pertly, saucy, snappish, snappishly, uppish, uppity), muffig (fustily, grumpy, mustily, musty, smelly, stale, unventilated). (various references)

Greek 

� εριφρονητικόσ. (various references)

Hebrew 

־עקם ַוטם. (various references)

Hungarian

szuper (boss, super, top notch), lenéző (contemptuous, disdainful), egy kis szaga van, baró (slick, spiffy). (various references)

Italian

Sprezzante (abject, contemptuous, derogative, derogatory, disdainful, disparaging, scornful), sdegnoso (contemptuous, disdainful, scornful), muffaticcio (smelly, stuffy, unventilated). (various references)

Pig Latin

iffysnay.(various references)

Portuguese

que mostra desdém, levemente malcheiroso, desdenhoso (contemptuous, contumelious, disdainful, sardonic, scornful, stuck-up, supercilious), altivo (arrogant, haughty, lofty, perky, proud, proud-spirited, self-assertive, snooty, stand-off, stand-offish, stuck-up, supercilious, uppish). (various references)

Romanian

Rãu Mirositor (fetid, malodorous, noisome, Reeky), Dispreţuitor (contemptuous, contemptuously, defiant, despiteful, disdainful, flouting, haughtily, scornful, supercilious). (various references)

Russian 

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

Serbo-Croatian

frktavo, frktav (snorting), šmrkavo, šmrkav. (various references)

Spanish

Estirado (drawn, extended, formal, pompous, prim, starchy, stiff, stiff necked, stretched, stretched tight, stuck up, tense, tight, tight-fisted, vain), Desdeñoso (cavalier, contemptuous, disdainful, scornful, supercilious, superior). (various references)

Swedish

nedlåtande (condescending, patronizing), föraktfull (contemptuous, disdainful, opprobrious). (various references)

Thai

หยิ่งยโส (lofty, lordly), ซึ่งทำจมูกฟุ�"ฟิ�". (various references)

Turkish

Pis Kokan (stinking), 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, snooty, stiff necked, stuck up, 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, snooty, snotty, stuck up, stuffed shirt, stuffy, supercilious, swelled head, swollen-headed, taffy-nosed, toffee-nosed, toffy-nosed, uppish, uppity, upstage, vain), Kötü Kokulu (frowzy, malodorous, stinky, unsavory, unsavoury), Burnu Havada (cocky, stuck up, very conceited). (various references)

Ukrainian

Презирливий, Зарозумілий. (various references)

Vietnamese 

khinh khỉnh hơi nặng mùi, hơi có mùi. (various references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: sniff.

-2 letters: fins, iffy, yins.

-3 letters: fin, iff, ifs, ins, sin, syn, yin.

-4 letters: if, in, is, si.

+2 letters: sniffily, snuffily.

+4 letters: falsifying, sniffishly.

+5 letters: offensively, sufficiency.