such-a-much adj.
(US)1. of a person, (self-)important.
 | St Joseph Gaz.-Herald (MO) 15 Apr. 3/4: Fuller and Jones came to the conlusion that their friend Charlie is not ‘such a much’ of a fisherman as he claims to be. | |
| Buffalo Eve. News (NY) 11 July 20/6: [advert] Sticky murmured: ‘Ah, I fear I’m not a such-a-much. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | El Paso Herald (TX) 23 Feb. 9/2: Jim Stewart was never ‘such-a-much’ as a fighter. | |
| El Paso Herald (TX) 26 Mar. 13/2: According to the sociologists [...] Japanese woman isn’t such-a-much as a cook. | |
| Dly Indep. Jrnl (San Rafael, CA) 21 May 13/5: Both clamed after the bout that the other wasn’t ‘such a much’ as a puncher. | |
| Howard Street 37: Why don’t you tell him t’stay away from me if you so such-a-much. | |
| Odessa American (TX) 11 Sept. B3/3: Paul was warning the people that he was not going to be looking for those who thought they were a such-a-much. |
2. of a thing, important.
| Gunner Depew 65: More than a third of our men [...] had been pretty tough criminals in their own countries. [...] This war was not such a much to them; just one more job on the list . | |
| Baltimore Sun (MD) 21 May 19/6: The Long Beacj handicap [...] proved that Mad Hatter isn’t such a much as a handicap horse. | |
| Eve. News (Wilkes-Barre, PA) 30 Sept. 4/1: The other cities [...] say the Giants are a Joe team and that the Yanks aren’t such-a-much. | |
| in Tampa Times (FL) 19 Dec. 8/3: My recent column on cats [...] brought me quite a number of letters which was a [...] surprise to me as I did not think it was such-a-much as a column. | |
| Lime Spring Herald (IA) 21 Dec. 1/1: Jet fighter plane is ‘such-a-much’ as a piece of combat equipment. | |
| Drylongso 144: That life in the country wasn’t so such-a-much. |