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noun
A deliberately superior person; a person who demonstrates an exaggerated conformity or propriety, especially in an irritatingly arrogant or smug manner.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: goody-goody, prude, puritan
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A conceited dandy; a fop.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: barbermonger, beau, blade, blood, buck, carpet knight, cockscomb, dandy, dike, dood, dude, dudelet, exquisite, fashionable, fast man, fine gentleman, fop, foretop, fribble, gallant, go, jack-a-dandy, Jemmy-Jessamy, jetter, macaroni, masher, metrosexual, mignon, petit maître, popinjay, pretty boy, prig, puss-gentleman, smart, spark, spiff, swell, tippy, toff
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A tinker.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Ireland, UK, archaic
Qualifier: thieves' cant
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A petty thief or pickpocket.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Ireland, UK, archaic
Qualifier: thieves' cant
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: abstractor, appropriator, bagger, booster, borrower, cribber, faker, filcher, flogger, heister, larcener, larcenist, liberator, lifter, misappropriator, nicker, pincher, purloiner, snitch, stealer, tea leaf, thief, thiever, cutpurse, dip, dipper, foist, footpad, gonoph, nip, nipper, pickpocket, pickpocketer, pickpurse, prig
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To filch or steal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, slang
Synonyms: cozen, mill, purloin, steal, abduct, abstract, appropriate, bag, bandit, bash and grab, bone, boost, burgle, burglarize, borrow, cheat, chore, commandeer, confiscate, convert, cop, crib, embezzle, filch, fleece, flog, gaffle, gilravage, half-inch, heave, heist, jack, kidnap, knock off, kipe, kyper, liberate, lift, loot, make off with, misappropriate, mooch, moonlight requisition, nick, nip, own, peculate, pickpocket, pilfer, pinch, pillage, pirate, plunder, poach, pocket, prig, raid, ransack, rape, relieve, reave, rip, rip off, rob, run off with, snag, snatch, sniggle, snitch, swindle, swipe, thieve, walk off with
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To ride.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To copulate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: sleep with, Formal terms, bed, coit, coitize, dight, enjoy, feague, go in unto, go to bed with, have, know, lie by, lie with, love, mount, occupy, penetrate, season, seduce, take, Any of Thesaurus:copulate + "with", Informal and slang terms, ball, bang, bauf, beep, be with, bone, boff, boink, bonk, boom-boom, dick, diddle, dig out, do, doink, drill, eff, expletive deleted, fill, frack, frak, frick, frig, fuck, get into someone's pants, get over on, get up in, give someone one, give someone the time, go with, have one's way with, have one's wicked way with, hit, hump, jape, jump, jump someone's bones, knob, knock, knock off, know someone in the biblical sense, lay, love up, make, nail, plough, plug, poke, pork, pound, prig, pump, ravage, ream, rock, roger, root, run through, rut, sard, schlong, screw, see to, service, shaft, shag, shelve, slay, slip it to, smash, smush, stallionize, swive, tap, tup, wap
Antonyms: none provided
noun
a person regarded as arrogant and annoying
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: snob, snot, snoot
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: unpleasant person, disagreeable person
History
UK 16th century. Of unknown origin. Earlier noun senses ("tinker" and "thief"), as hyponyms of "undesirable person", may have informed later senses ("conceited person").
Across languages
20 source translations are retained for this English entry.
