different between bragging vs haughty
bragging
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?b?a???/
- Hyphenation: brag?ging
- Rhymes: -æ???
Noun
bragging (plural braggings)
- The act of one who brags.
- 1936, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
- […] there was a glint of amused contempt in his black eyes — contempt, as if he listened to the braggings of children.
- 1936, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
Translations
Verb
bragging
- present participle of brag
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haughty
English
Etymology
From earlier hauty, haultic, with spelling change in imitation of English naughty and English high, from Middle English hautein, hautain (with -ein, -ain becoming -y through the form hautenesse standing for *hauteinnesse; see haughtiness), from Middle English haute (“self-important”), from Old French haut, hault (“high, lofty”), from Frankish *hauh, *h?h (“high, lofty, proud”) and Latin altus (“high, deep”). More at high, old.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /?h??ti/
- (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA(key): /?h?ti/
- Rhymes: -??ti
- Homophone: hottie (in accents with the cot-caught merger)
Adjective
haughty (comparative haughtier, superlative haughtiest)
- Conveying in demeanour the assumption of superiority; disdainful, supercilious.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:arrogant
Derived terms
- haughtily
- haughtiness
Related terms
- haught, haut, haute, hawt
Translations
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “haughty”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
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