"give oneself airs" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-give oneself airs.wav Forms: gives oneself airs [present, singular, third-person], giving oneself airs [participle, present], gave oneself airs [past], given oneself airs [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|give<,,gave,given> oneself airs}} give oneself airs (third-person singular simple present gives oneself airs, present participle giving oneself airs, simple past gave oneself airs, past participle given oneself airs)
  1. (idiomatic, intransitive) To act pretentiously, or in a snobbish manner; to swagger. Tags: idiomatic, intransitive Synonyms: put on airs Related terms: airs and graces Translations (to act pretentiously): hienostella (Finnish), herrastella (Finnish), se donner des airs (French), se donner un genre (French), darsi delle arie (Italian), darsi un tono (Italian), darsi un contegno (Italian), whakatamatama (Maori), pysznić się [imperfective] (Polish), a-și da aere (Romanian), важничать (važničatʹ) (Russian), зазнаваться (zaznavatʹsja) (Russian), asić sie [imperfective] (Silesian), pysznić sie [imperfective] (Silesian), darse ínfulas (Spanish), darse tono (Spanish), hava atmak [literally] (Turkish)

Inflected forms

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      "sense": "to act pretentiously",
      "word": "hienostella"
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      "sense": "to act pretentiously",
      "word": "herrastella"
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      "sense": "to act pretentiously",
      "word": "se donner des airs"
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      "sense": "to act pretentiously",
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      "sense": "to act pretentiously",
      "word": "whakatamatama"
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      "sense": "to act pretentiously",
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      "sense": "to act pretentiously",
      "word": "a-și da aere"
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      "code": "ru",
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      "roman": "važničatʹ",
      "sense": "to act pretentiously",
      "word": "важничать"
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      "roman": "zaznavatʹsja",
      "sense": "to act pretentiously",
      "word": "зазнаваться"
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      "code": "szl",
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      "sense": "to act pretentiously",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "asić sie"
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      "sense": "to act pretentiously",
      "word": "darse ínfulas"
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      "sense": "to act pretentiously",
      "word": "darse tono"
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