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big-headed

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big-headed
adjective boastful, arrogant, swaggering, bragging, cocky, vaunting, conceited, puffed-up, bumptious, immodest, crowing, overconfident, vainglorious, swollen-headed, egotistic, full of yourself, too big for your boots or breeches What an arrogant, big-headed man, she thought.
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big-headed [ˈbɪgˈhedɪd] ADJ → creído, engreído
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It was a spectacle to stir the dullest soul when this gallant band marched out of the yard in full regimentals, with Captain Dove a solemn, big-headed boy of eleven issuing his orders with the gravity of a general, and his Falstaffian regiment obeying them with more docility than skill.
Eight Cousins by Alcott, Louisa May View in context
The big-headed babies were equally obliging in lending their grotesque aid to the general effect.
Our Mutual Friend by Dickens, Charles View in context
A bare-polled, goggle-eyed, big-headed lumbering personage stood staring at him, not in the least impressive, not in the least venerable, who seemed to have started out of the earth to ask what was become of Casby.
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