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Definition: Snooty |
SnootyAdjective1. 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. |
| Domain | Definition |
Multilingual Slang | Spanish (pija). (references) |
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Synonyms: SnootySynonyms: 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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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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Books | |
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| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 41 | 53,521 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "snooty": be snooty. Additional references. | |
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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 |
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 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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) | |
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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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "snooty" (pronounced snuw"tē) |
| 3 | -uw" t ē | beauty, bootie, booty, duty, fluty, fruity, sooty, Tutti. |
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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. | |
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