toplofticaladj.
/tɒpˈlɒftɪkəl//tɒpˈlɔːftɪkəl/ humorous. colloquial.
High-flown, ‘high and mighty’, ‘highfalutin’, ‘stuck-up’; also literal lofty, elevated.
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the mind > emotion > pride > pretension to superiority > [adjective]
taunt?a1534
cocket1537
fastuous?1591
cobbing1599
whalebone1602
airy1606
fastigious1625
flatuous1630
high and mighty1633
vapouring1647
flatulent1658
hoity-toity1690
jackanapish1696
superior1711
penseful1788
uppish1789
pensy1790
stuck-up1812
glorified1821
toploftical1823
pretentious1832
sophomoric1837
highty-tighty1847
snippy1848
jumped-up1852
set-up1856
toplofty1859
cock-aloft1861
high-tone1864
high-toned1866
pretensivea1868
fancy-pants1870
hunched1870
snotty1870
head-in-air1880
uppity1880
jackanapsian1881
airified1882
sidey1898
posh1914
upstage1918
snooty1919
high-hatted1924
hincty1924
snot-nosed1941
posho1989
1823 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 14 104 Very toploftical to be sure.
c1824 J. W. Carlyle Early Lett. (1889) 84 At the first she was quite intolerable with her fine-lady airs, and toploftical notions.
1884 J. Burroughs Birds & Poets 74 Our toploftical brilliancy and cleverness.
1892 Cent. Mag. Apr. 837/2 Whose turban handkerchief towered in a toploftical structure.
1894 Harper's Mag. May 940/2 A few days of toploftical strutting around town.
1898 Speaker 22 Jan. 100/2 Eaten up by pride and a toploftical sense of independence.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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