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I'm outgoing when I have to be, but usually, I'm kinda shy. I always think people don't want to talk to me. Some people might take that as being stuck-up, but I'm just shy.
Hilary Duff

Meaning of "stuck-up" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF STUCK-UP

stuck-up play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF STUCK-UP

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Stuck-Up is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES STUCK-UP MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of stuck-up in the English dictionary

The definition of stuck-up in the dictionary is conceited, arrogant, or snobbish.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE STUCK-UP

stubborn
stubbornly
stubbornness
Stubbs
stubby
STUC
stucco
stuccoer
stuccowork
stuck
stuck-upness
Stuckism
stud
stud farm
stud fee
stud mare
stud poker
stud welding
studbook
studded

WORDS THAT END LIKE STUCK-UP

break-up
crack-up
crystal pick-up
fuck-up
hook-up
jack-up
kick-up
knock-up
lock-up
look-up
magnetic pick-up
mark-up
mock-up
muck-up
pick-up
satellite link-up
shook-up
stack-up
stick-up
walk-up

Synonyms and antonyms of stuck-up in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «STUCK-UP»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «stuck-up» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of stuck-up

Translation of «stuck-up» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF STUCK-UP

Find out the translation of stuck-up to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of stuck-up from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «stuck-up» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

高傲的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

creído
570 millions of speakers

English

stuck-up
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अटक अप
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مَغْرُور
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

высокомерный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

convencido
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

আটকে-আপ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

bêcheur
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Terjebak
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

hochnäsig
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

高慢ちきな
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

우쭐대는
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Macet
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

vênh vác
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மாட்டி கொண்டு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अडकलं
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

burnu havada
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

pieno di sé
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zarozumiały
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

зарозумілий
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

arogant
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ψηλομύτης
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vas -up
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

snobbig
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

overlegen
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of stuck-up

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «STUCK-UP»

The term «stuck-up» is quite widely used and occupies the 42.786 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «STUCK-UP» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about stuck-up

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2 QUOTES WITH «STUCK-UP»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word stuck-up.
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Hilary Duff
I'm outgoing when I have to be, but usually, I'm kinda shy. I always think people don't want to talk to me. Some people might take that as being stuck-up, but I'm just shy.
2
Norman Rockwell
I didn't know what to expect from a famous movie star; maybe that he'd be sort of stuck-up, you know. But not Gary Cooper. He horsed around so much... that I had a hard time painting him.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STUCK-UP»

Discover the use of stuck-up in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to stuck-up and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Stuck Up!: 100 Objects Inserted and Ingested in Places They ...
Start browsing this hilarious collection of images – you’ll be surprised at the patients’ creativity and the medical information provided. And: Don’t try this at home.…
Rich E. Dreben, M.D., Murdoc Knight, M.D., Marty A. Sindhian, M.D., 2011
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All Stuck Up
Brer Fox makes a tar baby in order to catch Brer Rabbit.
‎2003
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Stuck Up: Poems from Great Central Lake
This is the record of one summer in the life of a failure—a resentful, defiant, absurd figure sulking in Canada's North Woods. The poems in this collection chronicle his writhings—comic, violent, pathetic, and malevolent by turns.
John Dolan, 1995
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Gender and Crime: Patterns of Victimization and Offending
... of violence in their social lives. Gender and Violence Situational examinations of male violence have a Stuck Up, Telling Lies, and Talking Too Much: The Gendered Context of Young Women's Violence Jody Miller and Christopher W Mullins.
Karen Heimer, Candace Kruttschnitt, 2006
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A Voweller's Bestiary: From Aardvark to Guineafowl (And H)
Stuck-up Gulls Must Trust Dumb Ducks Duck slurps up mud culls crusts, gulps bugs. Stuck-up gull shuns duck, spurns duck's bugs Tut tuts duck's muck But . . . gull's upthrust mug juts up . . . Crusts? Crusts? Glug glug! But ugh! Gull's dud luck !
JonArno Lawson, 2008
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Stuck (Read aloud by Terence Stamp)
This is a read-along edition with audio synced to the text, performed by Terence Stamp.
Oliver Jeffers, 2011
7
Swapping Stories: Folktales from Louisiana
Whackl Brer Rabbit, he's all stuck up. All four foots are stuck up in that tarbaby. Then he said, "I give you one more time to say 'Good morning. If you don't say ' Good morning, I'm going to butt you with my head." Tarbaby, he don't say nothing.
Carl Lindahl, Maida Owens, C. Renée Harvison, 1997
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Gender Articulated: Language and the Socially Constructed Self
And I thought, “Hmm, cheerleaders—everybody's going to look up at them, and they're going to, you know ((laughter)) they're going to be stuck-up, and I don't want to be known as a stuck-up cheerleader," and-—so I steered away from that.
Kira Hall, Mary Bucholtz, 2012
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Getting Played: African American Girls, Urban Inequality, ...
Antwoin described similar incidents, though he appeared to implicate the young women: “The boys over there, they don't like the girls [who are] stuck up. They don't like stuck up girls over there.” Asked what qualified as being stuck up, ...
Jody Miller, 2008
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ネイティブが話す【英単語・イディオム・決まり文句】
stuck-up. =very proud and unfriendly : U.S.A. U.K. ; TOEFL : TOEIC ! STEP2 A: She thinks she is the most beautiful woman in the world. B: You can say that again. She is really stuck-up.
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3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «STUCK-UP»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term stuck-up is used in the context of the following news items.
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'Stuck-up' David Cameron heaps praise on Waitrose's 'better class of …
David Cameron has been accused of being “stuck-up and out of touch” after he heaped praise on people who shop at Waitrose, describing them as more ... «The Independent, Apr 14»
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Geraldo Rivera: Barack Obama Is 'Stuck-Up' And 'Snobby'
Stuck-up? Snobby, he says? What does that have to do with anything other than revealing his animus for a man he claims he wants to succeed? Rivera is the ... «News One, Oct 13»
3
Geraldo: Obamacare a 'Disaster,' Obama 'Stuck-Up' and 'Snobby'
“I take absolutely no pleasure in reporting this because I'm rooting for this president to succeed even though he's stuck-up and snobby and everything else,” ... «Mediaite, Oct 13»

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