Haughty, pompous, snobbish; inclined to turn up one's nose.
Sir Sydney was an arrogant, snooty, bigoted prig, so it was with some satisfaction that I wrote out his parking ticket.
Of an event, a thing, etc.: elite, exclusive.
Her parties were snooty affairs; custom-designed cocktail dresses that cost more than a decent luxury car were de rigueur.
Easily angered or irritated; irritable, short-tempered.
Synonym of snoot (“an elitist or snobbish person”).
Well there was always cliques as far as that goes. You had your snooties and dooties, and people that were down to earth, and it's mixed.
A surname.
The adjective is derived from snoot (“(UK, dialectal, and slang) snout; nose”) + -y (suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘having the quality of’), probably referring to a snobbish person often having th...
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