Adjective

(en adjective)

Proud; haughty; disdainful.

*1485 , (Thomas Malory), (w, Le Morte D'Arthur) , Macmillan and Co. (1891), page 52 (Book II, Chapter IV):

*:At that time there was a knight, the which was the king's son of Ireland, and his name was Lanceor, the which was an orgulous knight, and counted himself one of the best of the court; and he had great despite at Balin for the achieving of the sword, that any should be accounted more hardy, or of more prowess.

*1922 , (James Joyce), , Episode 14:

*:Then spoke young Stephen orgulous of mother Church that would cast him out of her bosom.

*1966 , Eric Walter White, Stravinsky the Composer and his Works , University of California Press (1966), page 5:

*:Her nephew describes her as 'an orgulous and despotic woman', and it is clear that he noticed and resented her numerous unkindnesses.

*1975 , (Georgette Heyer), (My Lord John) , Arrow Books (2011), ISBN 0099476428, pages 14-15:

*:They knew that my lord of Arundel had grown so orgulous that he had lately dared to marry the Earl of March's sister, without license.

Ostentatious; showy.

Swollen; augmented; excessive.

Threatening; dangerous.

Adjective

(er)

Gratified; feeling honoured (by something); feeling satisfied or happy about a fact or event.

Possessed of a due sense of what one is worth or deserves.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=6 citation , passage=‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”. […]’.}}

(chiefly, Biblical)  Having too high an opinion of oneself; arrogant, supercilious.

* 1611 , Proverbs 16:5, King James Version

Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.

* {{quote-book, year=1907, author=(Hilaire Belloc), title=(Cautionary Tales for Children), section=Godolphin Horne Who was cursed with the Sin of Pride, and Became a Boot-Black

, passage=Godolphin Horne was Nobly Born; / He held the human race in scorn, / And lived with all his sisters where / His father lived, in Berkeley Square. / And oh! The lad was deathly proud ! / He never shook your hand or bowed, / But merely smirked and nodded thus: / How perfectly ridiculous! / Alas! That such Affected Tricks / Should flourish in a child of six!}}

Generating a sense of pride; being a cause for pride.

(obsolete)  Brave, valiant; gallant.

Standing out or raised; swollen.

(obsolete)  Excited by sexual desire; (of female animals) in heat.

Happy, usually used with a sense of honor, as in "I'm so proud' to have you in our town." But occasionally just plain happy as in "I'm ' proud to see gas prices down." This is a widespread colloquial usage in the southern United States.