10 April 2014

haughty

[haw-tee]

adjective, haugh·ti·er, haugh·ti·est.

1. disdainfully proud; snobbish; scornfully arrogant; supercilious: haughty aristocrats; a haughty salesclerk.

2. Archaic. lofty or noble; exalted.

Origin: 1520–30; obsolete haught (spelling variant of late Middle English haute < Middle French < Latin altus high, with h- < Germanic; compare Old High German hok high) + -y1 Related forms haugh·ti·ly, adverb haugh·ti·ness, noun o·ver·haugh·ti·ly, adverb o·ver·haugh·ti·ness, noun o·ver·haugh·ty, adjective

Synonyms 1. lordly, disdainful, contemptuous. See proud. Antonyms 1. humble, unpretentious, unassuming.

Anagram

hay thug hath guy

Today’s aphorism

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.

– Abraham Lincoln

On this day

10 April 1815 – Indonesia’s Mount Tambora volcano begins a three month long eruption that lasted until 15 July 1815. It killed 71,000 people and affected the world’s climate for the next two years.

10 April 1912 – the ill-fated Titanic departs the port in Southampton, England bound for New York. On 14 April 1912, she hit an ice-berg and sank, killing more than 1,500 people.

10 April 1919 – death of Emiliano Zapata Salazar, Mexican revolutionary.

10 April 1979 – birth of Rachel Corrie, American peace activist. She was killed on 16 May 2003 when run over by an Israeli bulldozer that she was trying to stop from demolishing a Palestinian house in Gaza. Rachel was committed from an early age to human rights and caring for the poor as shown in this speech she gave in the fifth grade: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g__QAJ5gtQk