Uppish

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Uppish \Up"pish\, a. [From {Up}.]
     Proud; arrogant; assuming; putting on airs of superiority.
     [Colloq.] --T. Brown. -- {Up"pish*ly}, adv. [Colloq.] --
     {Up"pish*ness}, n. [Colloq.]
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  uppish
       adj : used colloquially of one who is overly conceited or
             arrogant; "a snotty little scion of a degenerate
             family"-Laurent Le Sage; "they're snobs--stuck-up and
             uppity and persnickety" [syn: {bigheaded}, {persnickety},
              {snooty}, {snot-nosed}, {snotty}, {stuck-up}, {too big
             for one's breeches}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  20 Moby Thesaurus words for "uppish":
     affected, brash, conceited, forward, high and mighty, highfalutin,
     hoity-toity, overweening, presuming, pushful, pushing,
     putting on airs, self-asserting, self-assertive, self-important,
     snobbish, snooty, snotty, stuck-up, uppity