orgulous

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WOTD – 14 January 2013

From Middle English orgulous, orgeilous, from Old French orgueilleus, orgoillus (“proud”), from orgoill, orgueil (“pride”), from Old Low Frankish *urgol (“pride”). Cognate with Old High German urguol (“excellent”), Old English orgel (“pride”), perhaps from a Proto-Germanic *uzgōljō, equivalent to or- (“out”) *gōl (“boast; showiness; pomp; splendor”), related to Old English galan (“to sing”) (whence Modern English gale). Also perhaps partly from Old French orgoill, from Vulgar Latin *orgōllia, *orgōlla, from Frankish *orgōllja, from the same Proto-Germanic source. Cognate with Old High German urguol, urguoli, urgilo (“pride”) and Spanish orgullo.

orgulous (comparative more orgulous, superlative most orgulous)

Proud; haughty; disdainful.
- Template:RQ:Malory Le Morte D'Arthur
- 1922 February, James Joyce, “[14]”, in Ulysses, London: The Egoist Press, published October 1922, OCLC 2297483:
  Then spoke young Stephen orgulous of mother Church that would cast him out of her bosom.
- 1966, Eric Walter White, Stravinsky the Composer and his Works‎^[1], University of California Press, page 5:
  Her nephew describes her as 'an orgulous and despotic woman', and it is clear that he noticed and resented her numerous unkindnesses.
- 1975, Georgette Heyer, My Lord John‎^[2], Arrow Books, →ISBN, page 14-15:
  They knew that my lord of Arundel had grown so orgulous that he had lately dared to marry the Earl of March's sister, without license.
Ostentatious; showy.
Swollen; augmented; excessive.
- 1967, John T. Sladek, Masterson and the Clerks, reprinted in Best SF Stories from New Worlds 4, edited by Michael Moorcock
  The smile became an orange balloon, orgulous and threatening.
Threatening; dangerous.