stuck-upness

Boston turned out to be a nephew––nephews was apt to be worse’n sons for stuck-upness––and he come in one morning in a private car hitched onto the Denver train.

We want to give them a right royal entertainment in order to knock some of their stuck-upness out of them.

There seemed to be a certain acceptance of John’s “stuck-upness.”

A simple process, but more difficult by far than the other, for the trousers would stick to the wet feet—no boy would dream of a towel, nor dare to be guilty of such a piece of "stuck-upness"—and the shirt would get wrong side out, or would bundle round the neck, or would cling to the wet shoulders till they had to get on their knees almost to squirm into it.