Haughty

  • 31haughty — [ˈhɔːti] adj proud and unfriendly …

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  • 32haughty — haugh•ty [[t]ˈhɔ ti[/t]] adj. ti•er, ti•est 1) disdainfully proud; snobbish; arrogant 2) archaic lofty or noble; exalted • Etymology: 1520–30; obs. haught (sp. var. of late ME haut < MF: high < L altus, with h < Gmc; cf. OHG hoh high) +… …

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  • 33haughty — /ˈhɔti / (say hawtee) adjective (haughtier, haughtiest) 1. disdainfully proud; arrogant; supercilious. 2. Obsolete exalted, lofty, or noble. {extended form of haught, originally haut, from French: high, in Old French halt, from Latin altus}… …

  • 34haughty — adj. (haughtier, haughtiest) arrogantly self admiring and disdainful. Derivatives: haughtily adv. haughtiness n. Etymology: extension of haught (adj.), earlier haut f. OF haut f. L altus high …

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  • 35Sigrid the Haughty — Sigrid the Haughty, also known as Sigrid Storråda, was a Nordic queen of contested historicity. She is generally held to be apocryphal in modern scholarship, see e.g. Birgitta Fritz.citation |author=Birgitta Fritz |contribution=Sigrid… …

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  • 36The Haughty Princess — (A rátartós királykisasszony) is an operetta by the Hungarian composer Victor Jacobi. As his first operetta it was premiered on December 17, 1904 in Budapest. The libretto is by Jenő Heltai, who rewrote a folk tale by Holger Drachmann …

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  • 37HMS Haughty (1895) — HMS Haughty was a Hardy class destroyer which served with the Royal Navy. She was launched by William Doxford Sons in 1895, served in home waters and sold in 1912.References*The British Destroyer by Captain T.D. Manning. Putnam and Co. 1961 …

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  • 38toffee-nosed —  Haughty …

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  • 39Haughtier — Haughty Haugh ty (h[add] t[y^]), a. [Compar. {Haughtier} (h[add] t[i^]*[ e]r); superl. {Haughtiest}.] [OE. hautein, F. hautain, fr. haut high, OF. also halt, fr. L. altus. See {Altitude}.] [1913 Webster] 1. High; lofty; bold. [Obs. or Archaic]… …

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  • 40Haughtiest — Haughty Haugh ty (h[add] t[y^]), a. [Compar. {Haughtier} (h[add] t[i^]*[ e]r); superl. {Haughtiest}.] [OE. hautein, F. hautain, fr. haut high, OF. also halt, fr. L. altus. See {Altitude}.] [1913 Webster] 1. High; lofty; bold. [Obs. or Archaic]… …

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