high-hat

See also: hi-hat

English

Adjective

high-hat (comparative more high-hat, superlative most high-hat)

disdainful; haughty

Translations

disdainful

Bulgarian: надменен (bg) (nadmenen), високомерен (bg) (visokomeren)
German: hochnäsig (de)

Russian: надме́нный (ru) m (nadménnyj)

Noun

high-hat (plural high-hats)

(slang) A person claiming to be superior.

Verb

(transitive) To snub or treat condescendingly.
- 1934, Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance, 1992 Bantam edition, →ISBN, page 139:
  I don't high-hat technical words, because I know there a lot of things that can't be said any other way, but the doctor's lengthy explanation simply boiled down to this, that […] .

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