stuck up

See also: stuck-up

English

Alternative forms

• stuck-up

Pronunciation

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Adjective

stuck up (comparative more stuck up, superlative most stuck up)

1. (idiomatic) snobbish, conceited; believing oneself to be better than others, usually because of abundant success; haughty; arrogant or egotistical.

   The rich people in that neighborhood were stuck up and not friendly at all.

2. (idiomatic) jammed; stuck and unable to move.

   The type of battery and the battery power level may cause the lens to be stuck up.

   We were stuck up here for three hours!.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:arrogant

Translations

snobbish, conceited

• Azerbaijani: lovğa (az)
• Bulgarian: високомерен (bg) (visokomeren), снобски (bg) (snobski)
• Dutch: hooghartig (nl), zelfingenomen (nl)
• Finnish: tärkeilevä (fi), leveilevä (fi), leventelevä, rehentelevä (fi)
• French: hautain (fr), orgueilleux (fr), vaniteux (fr)
• German: eingebildet (de)
• Latin: vultuōsus
• Pitcairn-Norfolk: waawaha
• Russian: высокоме́рный (ru) m (vysokomérnyj), зано́счивый (ru) m (zanósčivyj)
• Spanish: altanero (es), arrogante (es), estirado (es), pituco (es) (Chile), siútico (es) (Chile, Bolivia), fresa (es) (Mexico), creído (es), pijo (es), endiosado (es)
• Swedish: fisförnäm (sv)

Verb

stuck up

1. simple past and past participle of stick up

See also

• stick up