i Register
In some senses, snooty is marked as informal. Watch for register when choosing this word.
adj
Haughty, pompous, snobbish; inclined to turn up one's nose.
Sir Sydney was an arrogant, snooty, bigoted prig, so it was with some satisfaction that I wrote out his parking ticket.
I didn't like the way you looked at May Arnold, or the snooty way you talked.
Of an event, a thing, etc.: elite, exclusive.
Her parties were snooty affairs; custom-designed cocktail dresses that cost more than a decent luxury car were de rigueur.
The Mercury for 1959 firmly establishes itself as Ford Motor's flashy centerpiece in the middle-price field. […] It's snootier than the Edsel—and snootier than it was, itself, in 1958.
Easily angered or irritated; irritable, short-tempered.
noun
Synonym of snoot (“an elitist or snobbish person”).
Well there was always cliques as far as that goes. You had your snooties and dooties, and people that were down to earth, and it's mixed.
Because you never hung around with the city snooties like I did, scooping up the council gossip.
name
A surname.