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stuck-up

[stuhk-uhp] / ˈstʌkˈʌp /


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Stuck-up roommate: "Are you saying that I am shallow?"

From Time Magazine Archive

Stuck-up, I call him; and Lulie Hallett's the same way.

From Galusha the Magnificent by Lincoln, Joseph Crosby

"Stuck-up thing!" she exclaimed as soon as she was safe in the passage.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. by Various

"Stuck-up old statuette of nothing doing!" commented the ex-Soap King.

From The Four Million by Henry, O.

"Save the drumstick for me," gobbled Mr. Stuck-up, "they didn't bother me much on Hallowe'en, but I'm going to get even for Thanksgiving."

From Half-Past Seven Stories by Anderson, Robert Gordon




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