Haughty vs Morgue - What's the difference?
haughty | morgue |
Conveying in demeanour the assumption of superiority; disdainful, supercilious.
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A supercilious or haughty attitude; arrogance.
* 1855 , Sir Richard Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah , Dover 1964, p. 34:
A building or room where dead bodies are kept before their proper burial or cremation.
The archive and background information division of a newspaper.
:: Kwapil, Joseph F. (2 July 1921) "Librarian Talks of Newspaper Morgue", Fourth Estate
As a adjective haughty
is conveying in demeanour the assumption of superiority; disdainful, supercilious.As a noun morgue is
a supercilious or haughty attitude; arrogance.haughty
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Possibly due to the similar sounding (and utterly different in meaning) hottie'', ''haughty has become rare in some parts of North America.References
*morgue
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(en noun)- They being newcomers, free from the western morgue so soon caught by Oriental Europeans, were particularly civil to me, even wishing to mix me a strong draught; but I was not so fortunate with all on board.
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