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morgue.

A supercilious or haughty attitude; arrogance.

6 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/mɔːɡ/Received-Pronunciation/moɹɡ/General-American[mo̞ɹɡ]General-American/mɔː(ɹ)ɡ/
  1. A supercilious or haughty attitude; arrogance.

    archaic
  2. A building or room where dead bodies are kept before their proper burial or cremation, (now) particularly in legal and law enforcement contexts.

  3. The archive and background information division of a newspaper.

    dated · slang
Where this word comes from

Borrowed from French morgue. The second sense developed from the first, via "a prison examination room", probably with reference to the haughty attitude of the jailers.

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