outhaughty

English

Etymology

Verb

outhaughty (third-person singular simple present outhaughties, present participle outhaughtying, simple past and past participle outhaughtied)

To be more haughty than.
- 1997, Dana Stabenow, Breakup, →ISBN, page 54:
  The overcast had cleared and they were fifteen hundred feet up, with the blue-white peaks of the Quilak Mountains at their backs, stretching southeast to northwest, uncompromisingly beautiful and, Kate was pleased to see, effortlessly outhaughtying the Bakers.
- 2009, Maria Lima, Blood Bargain, →ISBN:
  If this Sidhe, this so-called cousin, thought he could outhaughty me, intimidate me, he was sadly mistaken.
- 2011, Maria Schneider, Executive Sick Days:
  No one can outhaughty a cat, especially a sleek, shorthaired killer.
- 2012, Helen Gurley Brown, Sex and the Office, →ISBN:
  One of my sources said it was fun and games to watch a haughty call girl outhaughty and upstage an unknowing Park Avenue hostess at whose home she was a guest.