morgue

Meaning

Noun

• A supercilious or haughty attitude; arrogance.
• A building or room where dead bodies are kept before their proper burial or cremation, particularly in legal and law enforcement contexts.
• The archive and background information division of a newspaper.

Related

Similar words

• See mortuary
• deadhouse

Origin

• Borrowed from French morgue. The second sense developed from the first, via "a prison examination room", probably with reference to the haughty attitude of the jailers.