Can refer to either:
(1) a defiant sulky overbearing manner dat a closed-minded person exhibits if anyone expresses doubts about supposed facts dat they themselves believe are reliable/correct, or
(2) a similar disagreeable unwillingness to agreeably go along if someone in charge tells them to "step lively" due to some purported deadline or emergency.
(1) a defiant sulky overbearing manner dat a closed-minded person exhibits if anyone expresses doubts about supposed facts dat they themselves believe are reliable/correct, or
(2) a similar disagreeable unwillingness to agreeably go along if someone in charge tells them to "step lively" due to some purported deadline or emergency.
Maybe you'd soon develop a "stattitude", too, if people were always telling you to jump like a jack-in-da-box and go flitting about at a frenzied pace just to please them regarding some merely-believed-by-only-them impending catastrophe, but which you see little or no sign of actual existence, such as a political dilemma, religious calamity, etc.
by QuacksO January 17, 2023