orgillous
Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adjective Proud; haughty.
Examples
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The salmon, 'right orgillous and presumptive,' still kept the strength of the stream, and abating nothing of its vigour, went swiftly down the _whirls_; then through the _Boat shiel_, and over the shallows, till he came to the throat of the _Elm Wheel_, down which he darted amain.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843
Note
The word 'orgillous' comes from an Old French word meaning 'pride'.
