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show-offish

  • a word derived from show-off.
    show-off
    noun
    a person given to pretentious display.

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The courtship of Scott and Ginevra makes for some droll comic numbers, like the pleasantly show-offish “Improvising,” but never generates much heat.

From New York Times Nov. 19, 2014