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pan-loafy

pan-loafy adjective: posh, pretentious or stuck-up.

Adjective

pan-loafy (comparative more pan-loafy, superlative most pan-loafy)

  1. (Scotland, colloquial) Posh, pretentious or stuck-up
    • Perhaps it is a class thing. Pan loafy people can also be very stuffy and toffee nosed and hence arrogant.1993, K Stephen, “Proud to be British?”, in soc.culture.british (Usenet)
    • The Central belt is becoming more weedjie. Edinburgh is still pretty pan-loafy. Fifer is bools-in-the-mooth.1999: Muttley, Life's not worth it in uk.people.support.depression http://groups.google.com/group/uk.people.support.depression/browse_thread/thread/12380b7bb065f05a/bbc538e49e23ca53?lnk=st&q=pan-loafy...

Forms of pan-loafy

comparativemore pan-loafy
superlativemost pan-loafy
alternative formpan loafy
alternative formpanloafy

Origin of pan-loafy

From pan-loaf + -y, of Scottish origin. A pan-loaf was more expensive than ordinary bread.

Questions about pan-loafy

What does pan-loafy mean?
Pan-loafy means posh, pretentious or stuck-up.
What part of speech is pan-loafy?
Pan-loafy is an adjective.

Words near pan-loafy in the dictionary

  1. Pan-Islamic
  2. Pan-Islamist
  3. Pan-Islamists
  4. Pan-like
  5. pan-loaf
  6. pan-loafy
  7. pan-loaves
  8. pan-Muslimism
  9. pan-nationalism
  10. pan-Palestinian
  11. pan-pan

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