Snooty

  

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Snooty

Definition: Snooty

Snooty

Adjective

1. Used colloquially of one who is overly conceited or arrogant; "a snotty little scion of a degenerate family"-Laurent Le Sage; "they're snobs--stuck-up and uppity and persnickety".

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

 

Specialty Definition: Snooty

DomainDefinition

Multilingual Slang

Spanish (pija). (references)

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Synonyms: Snooty

Synonyms: bigheaded (adj), persnickety (adj), snot-nosed (adj), snotty (adj), stuck-up (adj), too big for one's breeches (adj), uppish (adj). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Snooty

DomainUsage

Screenplays

If you don't leave, I'm going to have to get snooty. (Ferris Bueller's Day Off; writing credit: John Hughes)

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Commercial Usage: Snooty

DomainTitle

Books

  • Rooty Tooty Snooty (Snuffin Chronicles) (reference)

  • Snooty the Fox and the Mysterious Black Box (reference)

  • Snooty the Fox meets Dead-Eye Dick (reference)

  • The Dangerous Ride: A Snooty the Fox Adventure (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Image Slideshow: Snooty

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Usage Frequency: Snooty

"Snooty" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Snooty" is used about 41 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%4153,521

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Expression: Snooty

Expression using "snooty": be snooty. Additional references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Snooty

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

snooty fox

27

snooty

7

pet snooty

6

cincinnati fox snooty

4

manatee snooty

2

fox indianapolis snooty

2

dog snooty

2

consignment fox snooty

2
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Modern Translation: Snooty

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

Albanian

  

përbuzës (contemptuous, cynical, disdainful, pejorative, scornful, Sniffy), mospërfillës (cavalier, defiant, disdainful, flippant, impervious, indifferent, languid, neglectful, negligent, nonchalant, uninterested, unsympathetic). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏متكبر (arrogant, conceited, haughty, insolent, lofty, lordly, proud, supercilious, swank, swelling, upstage), ‏متغطرس (arrogant, conceited, haughty, imperious, insolent, lofty, lordly, overbearing, overpeopled, overproud, overweening, presuming, presumptuous, proud, pushy, supercilious), ‏متشامخ (stuck up, supercilious, superior), ‏تكبر (arrogance, be arrogant, look big, lordliness, pride, snobbery, snootiness, superciliousness, swank, vanity). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

снобски (pseudo, ritzy, snobbish, uppish, upstage), високомерен (airy, cavalier, domineering, grand, high and mighty, imperious, lofty, lordly, overweening, proud, snuffy, stiff necked, top-lofty). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

پرکبر, پرافاده (Bigheaded, Cocksure, Snobbish), دارای قیافه تحقیرامیز. (various references)

   

French

  

prétentieux, hautain, bêcheur, arrogant. (various references)

   

German

  

hochnäsig (arrogant, snootily, stuck up, supercilious, uppish, uppity, upstage). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

φαντασμένοσ (bumptious, cocky, conceited, coxcomb, hoity toity, jackanapes, ladida, opinionated, priggish, self-conceited, self-important, smug, snobbish, stuck up, stuffed shirt, stuffy), ακατάδεκτοσ (snob, snobbish), ψηλομύτησ (hoity toity, snotty nosed). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

י"יר (arrogant, conceited, haughty, high and mighty, overweening, pompous, popinjay, presumptuous, snob, snotty, supercilious, swollen), שחצן (arrogant, boastful, conceited, haughty, overbearing, popinjay, presumptuous, smart aleck, snob, whippersnapper), ס ובי (snobbish). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

sznob (snob, snobbish, snobby), felvágós (large, up-stage). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

congkak (proud). (various references)

   

Italian

  

snob (snob, snobbish), borioso (snobbish, stuck up), altezzoso (arrogant, cavalier, haughty, high, supercilious, upstage). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

거만한 (haughty, insolent, Proud, supercilious). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ootysnay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

pretensioso (assuming, assumptive, bounder, bumptious, chesty, cocksure, cocksy, cocky, conceited, donnish, exquisite, goody, gooey, hoity-toity, la-di-da, orotund, pretentious, prig, priggish, select, showy, snob, square-toed, swanky), presumido (assuming, cock-a-hoop, cockalorum, fop, immodest, overweening, presumed, presuming, presumptuous, pretentious, priggish, proud, proud-spirited, self-satisfied, sidy, square-toed, swanky), orgulhoso (arrogant, boastful, flatulent, grand, haughty, proud, proud-spirited, stuck-up, supercilious, uppish), altivo (arrogant, haughty, lofty, perky, proud, proud-spirited, self-assertive, sniffy, stand-off, stand-offish, stuck-up, supercilious, uppish). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

îngâmfat (arrogant, assuming, bloated, bumptious, cock-a-hoop, conceited, flaunty, fop, haughtily, inflated, perky, presumptuous, self-conceited, self-pleasing, stuck up, supercilious, swollen, vainglorious). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

раздражительный (apoplectic, bad tempered, bad-tempered, chippy, choleric, crab, crabbed, crabby, criss cross, crusty, doggish, fractious, fretful, grouty, grumpy, huffish, huffy, irascible, irritable, livery, ornery, peevish, pettish, petulant, quick tempered, quicktempered, rambunctious, rusty, short tempered, snappish, snuffy, spleenful, splenetic, testy, touchy), чванливый, высокомерный (arrogant, assuming, cavalier, domineering, haughty, high and mighty, highbrow, insolent, overweening, proud-stomached, sniffy, stiff necked, stuck up, stuck-up, supercilious, tossy, uppity), воображающий, презрительный (contemptuous, disdainful, scornful). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

ohol (arrogant, disdainful, haughtly, haughty, hoity toity, huffy, magisterial, overbearing, overblown, proud, snippy, stuck up, supercilious), naduven (bloated, gouty, overblown, stilted, turgid). (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, stuck up, vain, vainglorious), fachendoso (conceited, snotty), altanero (arrogant, bumbling, haughty, high and mighty, lofty, pride, proud, snuffy, stuck up, supercilious, upstage). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

stroppig, snorkig (snotty, uppish, uppity), snobbig (dandified, dandyish, foppish, high hat, snobbish, snobby). (various references)

   

Thai

  

หัวสูง. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

tepeden bakan (haughty, high and mighty, high hat, holier-than-thou, self-righteous, supercilious), mağrur (arrogant, conceited, disdainful, haughty, lofty, overweening, proud, supercilious, uppish, uppity, vainglorious), 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, 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, Sniffy, snotty, stuck up, stuffed shirt, stuffy, supercilious, swelled head, swollen-headed, taffy-nosed, toffee-nosed, toffy-nosed, uppish, uppity, upstage, vain), küçümseyen (condescending, cynical, deprecating, deprecatory, disdainful, disparaging, scornful, sneering, snide, underestimating). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

чванькуватий (highbrow, prideful), непри"мний (acerbic, bad, beastly, brackish, disagreeable, displeased, displeasing, distasteful, grisly, hack, importune, nasty, objectionable, obnoxious, offensive, painful, plaguy, poor, provoking, tedious, ugly, unfavorable, unfavourable, ungracious, ungrateful, unlovable, unloveable, unlovely, unpleasant, unwelcome), зарозумілий (arrogant, audacious, contemptuous, dogmatic, dogmatical, domineering, high and mighty, highbrow, insolent, lordly, overbearing, overly, overweening, proud, self-conceited, self-explanatory, self-important, stately, stiff necked, stuck up, topping, upstage). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

l m bộ l m tịch trưởng giả học l m sang, kiêu kỳ (haughty, lofty, supercilious), học đòi l m sang. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Snooty

Misspellings

"Snooty" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Nowotny, scooty, shootey, shotyk, snaty, snoota, snootey, snory, snoth, snoute, snouty, snudy, spooty. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Snooty"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "snooty" (pronounced snuw"tē)
3-uw" t ēbeauty, bootie, booty, duty, fluty, fruity, sooty, Tutti.

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Anagrams: Snooty

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: toyons.

Words within the letters "n-o-o-s-t-y"

-1 letter: snoot, sooty, stony, toons, toyon, toyos.

-2 letters: nosy, onto, oots, snot, soon, soot, tons, tony, toon, toyo, toys.

-3 letters: noo, nos, not, ons, oot, son, sot, soy, sty, syn, ton, too, toy, yon.

-4 letters: no, on, os, oy, so, to, yo.

 Words containing the letters "n-o-o-s-t-y"
 

+1 letter: tycoons.

 

+2 letters: nodosity, nonstory, oxytones, snootily, sonority, toponyms, typhoons.

 

+3 letters: astronomy, cryotrons, gonocytes, holystone, monocytes, monostely, monotypes, myotonias, oxytocins.

 

+4 letters: actomyosin, amyotonias, anisotropy, antonymous, coenocytes, colocynths, consistory, cotyledons, cyclotrons, cytotoxins, dynamotors, festoonery, gastronomy, holystoned, holystones, hypotonias, moneyworts, mycotoxins, soothingly, syncopator, synostoses, synostosis, toponymies, toponymist.

 

+5 letters: actomyosins, bounteously, choanocytes, consolatory, consonantly, controversy, cosignatory, dicynodonts, endocytoses, endocytosis, enterostomy, frontolyses, frontolysis, holystoning, hypotension, isoantibody, isotonicity, momentously, monocrystal, monstrosity, monstrously, mycetozoans, myoinositol, notoriously, outspokenly, oxygenators, pinocytoses, pinocytosis, retinoscopy, somnolently, soothsaying, stereophony, synaptosome, synchrotron, syncopation, syncopators, toponymists, torsionally, tropomyosin, trypanosome, xylophonist.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Derivations
11. Rhymes
12. Anagrams
13. Bibliography


  

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