big-headed


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big-headed

adjective boastful, arrogant, swaggering, bragging, cocky, vaunting, conceited, puffed-up, bumptious, immodest, crowing, overconfident, vainglorious, swollen-headed, egotistic, full of yourself, too big for your boots or breeches What an arrogant, big-headed man, she thought.
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big-headed

[ˈbɪgˈhedɪd] ADJcreído, engreído
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