(?) Haughty; ‘high and mighty’; ‘stuck-up’. In modern dialect saucy, pert.

Proud, conceited; arrogant, presumptuous, impudent.

Having or characterized by excessive pride, vanity, or self-importance; haughty, arrogant; pompous.

Playing the ‘cob’.

as adj. Stiffened with strips of whalebone; made of or containing whalebone; also figurative, ‘stiff’, affected.

Cf. air, n.1 IV. Assuming airs; making lofty pretensions. rare. In later use Scottish & U.S. regional.

High, eminent, exalted. Sometimes with additional literal reference to a fastigium (see fastigium, n. 1a).

figurative. = flatulent, adj. 5.

colloquial. Assuming or exhibiting an air of superiority; imperious, arrogant.

Acting or talking in a pretentious or high-flown manner.

figurative. Inflated or puffed-up, ‘windy’; empty, vain, pretentious.

(a) Frolicsome, romping, giddy, flighty. (b) Assuming, haughty, petulant, huffy.

In ironic use. Characteristic of or designating someone who thinks he or she is better than someone else; having or displaying a high opinion of…

Conceited, giving oneself airs. Obsolete.

Inclined to be ‘stuck up’; putting on airs; aiming at gentility.

Scottish. Giving oneself airs, conceited.

Affectedly superior and aloof; characterized by snobbish haughtiness.

colloquial. That has undergone transformation into something glorious. (Often used sarcastically, e.g. to imply that a person of distinguished…

High-flown, ‘high and mighty’, ‘highfalutin’, ‘stuck-up’; also literal lofty, elevated.

Attempting to impress by affecting greater importance or merit than is actually possessed; making an exaggerated outward display; ostentatious, showy.

Of or pertaining to, befitting or resembling, characteristic of, a sophomore; hence, pretentious, bombastic, inflated in style or manner…

Petulant, touchy; (also, now chiefly) haughty, supercilious; = hoity-toity, adj. b.

dialect and colloquial. Fault-finding, snappish, sharp; putting on airs, supercilious.

jumped-up: that has newly or suddenly risen in status or importance (often with an implication of conceit or arrogance). Also transferred.

(a) established; (b) dialect and colloquial conceited, ‘stuck up’; (c) of type, composed.

Lofty in manner or character; elevated; haughty, ‘high and mighty’.

Haughty; affectedly elevated.

Originally and chiefly U.S. colloquial. High-class, superior; = high-toned, adj. 2.

Chiefly U.S. Expressing elevated sentiments; having a high moral tone; high-principled. Also: having dignified or superior manners; refined…

Chiefly U.S. Pretentious, ostentatious, snobbish.

Fancy, fine, ornamental. Now usually: overly fancy; posh; snobbish, pretentious.

Having or bowed into a hump; humpbacked; figurative apt to ‘set one's back up’, ‘stuck-up’. Also with adverbs.

dialect or slang. Angry, curt, short-tempered; pert, saucy, impudent; proud, conceited. Now esp. supercilious, aloof, ‘snooty’.

Of a person: dreamy, absent-minded, or unworldly; (also) characteristic of such a person. Cf. head, n.1 phrases 3a(b).

Above oneself, self-important, ‘jumped-up’; arrogant, haughty, pert, putting on airs. Cf. uppish, adj. 2d. attributive.

Made airy; affectedly superior, given to assuming airs.

Pretentious, conceited.

Smart, stylish, splendid; luxurious. Also (chiefly British): typical of or belonging to the upper class; (affecting to be) superior or genteel…

Superior or aloof in manner; ‘stuck-up’. Chiefly of persons.

Supercilious, haughty, conceited; affecting superiority, snobbish; ‘highbrow’, ‘stuck-up’. Occasionally, irritable, short-tempered.

Originally and chiefly U.S. = high hat, adj.

Conceited, snobbish, stuck-up.

foul with nasal mucus; conceited; inexperienced and contemptible; = snotty-nosed, adj.

Smart, stylish; typical of or belonging to the upper class; = posh, adj.