haughten

H4A1U1G2H4T1E1N1

verb

To make or become haughty.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

verbhaughten (third-person singular simple present haughtens, present participle haughtening, simple past and past participle haughtened)

present singular third person haughtens · participle present haughtening · participle past haughtened · past haughtened · alternative nonce word haughton

  1. ambitransitiverareTo make or become haughty.

    A haughtening sprits.

    2011, Whispers of the Soul, page 84
    3 more examples

    Till now her innocent wrongs, endured in isolation, had hardened and, if the word be permissible, haughtened her.

    1894, George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates, Temple Bar, volume 101, page 274

    And when, the day's work well accomplished, and the haughty, Haughtoned rival betook his weary and humbled prowess back to his haunts of New Jersey or Connecticut, the Jester, stein in hand, would sit before his birch fire and discuss the salient features of the famous game, as if the world itself had stopped wagging for a moment to gaze in awe at the grassy gridiron and wave a crimson flag above the cheering multitudes.

    1918, The Harvard Lampoon, volumes 75-76, page 98

    "Obviously," said Michael, haughtening his accent.

    1963, Nimrod - Volume 1, Issue 2, page 27

Origin

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