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say it: SNIF-ee
sniffy is an adjective meaning "having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy". It is pronounced /ˈsnɪfi/ — SNIF-ee. It carries one recorded sense.
having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy
“some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines”
“haughty aristocrats”
“his lordly manners were offensive”
“walked with a prideful swagger”
“very sniffy about breaches of etiquette”
“his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air”
“a more swaggering mood than usual”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for sniffy come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.