Etiquette

n. (Rules governing) Socially acceptable behavior.

Something today's society seems to be lacking in, due to the creation of social classing.

Etiquette would be helping an elderly lady across the road, not twatting her one in the middle of the road and stealing her purse.

Etiquette by Dave(thepunkyone) January 10, 2006

Etiquette

How a woman presents herself fashionably and cosmetically.

Damn! She has a lot of etiquette!

Etiquette by jeffytheman October 5, 2021

Etiquette

Polite manner.

Dreadful etiquette, I know.

Etiquette by artichoke me daddy June 6, 2018

Etiquette

Socially accepted unwritten rules

Two people who are seeing each other live in two different cities, roughly one hour away from each other. Person A lives in city A and Person B lives in city B. Person A wants to break up with person B. Person A is required to drive to City B where she then proceeds to break up with Person B. Person B should not be required to drive to city A. Assuming Person A drives to City B, Person A is exercising good etiquette.

Etiquette by hello8016 September 2, 2013

etiquette

an unwritten set of cultural rules.

Examples:

1. tipping in the United States

2. placing the fork to the left of the plate and the knife/fork on the right

3. a man should call a woman is he has asked for her number

4. dont be late on a date

5. during a job interview, dont sit down until asked by the interviewer

6. not putting you elbows on the dinner table

7. dont ever break off a relationship via e-mail; do it by phone or in person

Etiquette is actually pretty silly

etiquette by [e-mail] December 29, 2007

Etiquette

Snob who eats a burger with a knife and fork.

Noun - etiquette of a tosser

Alex eats his burger with the etiquette of a tosser

Etiquette by Bbh87 February 25, 2018

etiquette freak 

Someone so obsessed with the minutiae of lower-middle-class good manners that they utterly miss the point of the exercise. The name of the game for these people is not showing consideration for others at all, but merely showing off their own upward mobility in the most vulgar way possible. There are few people more annoying than etiquette freaks, who themselves typically flout the most elementary standards of civilised behaviour every chance they get. A typical etiquette freak would be the character of Hyacinth Bouquet in "Keeping Up Appearances".

There is of course an entire industry of books and other sources supplying the requirements of etiquette freaks, often including such nuggets of folk wisdom as the following, in a book by Angela Lansbury (presumably not the actress): "A lady only has her name in the paper on three occasions in her life: when she is born, when she marries and when she dies."

An etiquette freak will always endeavour to have as many different varieties of knives, forks and spoons for their guests as possible at a dinner party. Preferably all laid out at the same time.

etiquette freak by Fearman August 7, 2007