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dryhanded
adjective
inordinately proud, snobbish US, 1947- After the settlement of Shelburne [NS] (1783), “Barrington began to consider itself the seat of learning and to look down its nose somewhat at the other villages, which in turn accused [it] of becoming dryhanded, too high-minded. — “From Norfolk to the Hawk,” Dalhousie Review, 1953
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