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uppish

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Adjective

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up=pish

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective uppish has 1 sense

uppish(s = adj.all) bigheaded, persnickety, snooty, snot-nosed, snotty, stuck-up, too big for one's breeches - (used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant; "a snotty little scion of a degenerate family"; "they're snobs--stuck-up and uppity and persnickety"

Derived form noun uppishness₁

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CIDE DICTIONARY

uppish, a. [From Up.].

Proud; arrogant; assuming; putting on airs of superiority. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

uppish, adj. esp. Brit. colloq. self-assertive or arrogant.

Derivative

uppishly adv. uppishness n.

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THESAURUS

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

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