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Definition of Sniffy
1. Adjective. Having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy. "A more swaggering mood than usual"
Similar to: Proud
Derivative terms: Disdainfulness, Haughtiness, Imperiousness, Lordliness, Overbearingness, Superciliousness
Definition of Sniffy
1. Adjective. Disdainful; haughty. ¹
2. Adjective. characterised by sniffing. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sniffy
1. sniffish [adj -FIER, -FIEST] - See also: sniffish
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sniffy
Literary usage of Sniffy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. T leaves: a collection of pieces written for public reading by Edward Francis Turner (1882)
"Moreover, Matilda was perfectly unconscious of having inspired such a consuming
flame in the breast of sniffy - for he had never avowed the circumstance to ..."
2. Sensible Etiquette of the Best Society, Customs, Manners, Morals, and Home by Clara Jessup Moore (1878)
"It would be as impossible for a true gentlewoman to be habitually rude, or
even "sniffy," as it would be for a thoroughbred horse to possess ..."
3. Sensible Etiquette of the Best Society, Customs, Manners, Morals, and Home by Clara Jessup Moore (1878)
"It would be as impossible for a true gentlewoman to be habitually rude, or
even "sniffy," as it would be for a thoroughbred horse to possess the qualities ..."
4. Plays and Players: Leaves from a Critic's Scrapbook by Walter Prichard Eaton (1916)
"Of course, anybody can realize there was nothing else for her to do, because her
little girl had a cold—one of those mean, sniffy colds. ..."
5. The Passionate Pilgrim: Or Eros and Anteros by Francis Turner Palgrave (1858)
"In the days when Godwin, declining, as became a republican, the prefix.of Mister,
was a sage much sought, a lady visi'cf!, of the sniffy, love-in-thc-aib- ..."
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