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- (uncountable, archaic) Behaviour adopted to demonstrate one's superiority; pretentious or snobbish behaviour; airs and graces.
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Meaning
- [Noun]
- (uncountable, archaic) Behaviour adopted to demonstrate one's superiority; pretentious or snobbish behaviour; airs and graces.
- (uncountable, obsolete) Flighty, giddy, or silly behaviour; also, noisy merriment.
- (countable, British, dialectal) A young woman regarded as flighty, giddy, or silly.
- [Adjective]
- Affected or pretentious, sometimes with the implication of displaying an air of excessive fanciness or ostentation; pompous, self-important, snobbish; often displaying a feeling of patronizing self-aggrandizing or arrogant class superiority.
- (obsolete) Flighty, giddy, silly; also, merry in a noisy manner.
- [Adverb]
- Flightily, giddily.
- Merrily, in a noisy manner.
- [Interjection]
- (dated) Expressing disapprobation or surprise at acts or words that are pompous or snobbish, or flighty.
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