Presumido in english
Smug
pronunciation: smʌg part of speech: adjective
pronunciation: smʌg part of speech: adjective
In gestures
presumido1 = hoity-toity ; poseur ; show-off.
Example: It's the kind of barn where you can learn to ride without feeling mocked or like some hoity-toities are looking down their nose at you.Example: This is an interesting little town wholly populated by poseurs and backpackers with a few salty sea dogs thrown in for good measure.Example: The ebullient Mr Wang is a chatterbox and a bit of a show-off.more:
» ser un presumido = worry about + Posesivo + appearance ; worry about what + Pronombre + look like .
Example: By the age of thirty she considered herself a confirmed spinster, and no longer worried about her appearance, which was careless and unattractive. Example: My grandmother is still a woman who worries about what she looks like when she goes outside.presumido2 = conceited ; smug ; presumptuous ; self-important ; high-blown ; vain ; poncey [poncy].
Example: She wanted to say: 'You are a conceited, obstinate, inflexible, manipulative, pompous, close-minded, insensitive, abrasive, opinionated, platitudinous oaf!'.Example: A little later in the same document, in a passage dealing in a rather smug way with the then infant county libraries we read that the purpose of such libraries should be to relieve the tedium of idle hours quite irrespective of intellectual profit or educational gain.Example: Many feel that it is presumptuous to think that a 150- to 250-word abstract can carry enough information from a well-written 3,000-word paper to be of much use except as a guide.Example: He was described as 'a self-important, self-righteous blowhard, puffing his filthy pipe, patches on the elbows of his well-worn tweed jacket, decked out in the cliche costume of the shabby liberal icon'.Example: In our media saturated world of high-blown hype and suffocating spin they do their best to tell you the truth.Example: The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous.Example: These civil servants like to use such poncey language -- it demonstrates the lack of any connection to the people they are serving.presumir1 = boast ; brag ; grandstand ; show off ; swank ; talk + big.
Example: In fact, he boasts that he knows more about library work than all of us who have our master's degrees put together.Example: While pirates and ancient mariners may have bragged about sailing the seven seas, the phrase is merely figurative.Example: Low key and humble, he would never be the type to grandstand and bluster about injustice.Example: The district will proudly show off its historical heritage: the monastic library at Broumov, founded in the 13th century by Benedictine monks.Example: Some of them were a little overbearing, but that was presumably because they were on home territory and liked swanking about it to others.Example: Well, he is always talking big but he never really does anything.presumir2 = presume.
Example: We presumed this principle of organization in the case of searching the public library for a document about programmed instruction.