uppity

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Adjective
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up=pi=ty

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective uppity has 1 sense

  • uppity(s = adj.all) overweening - presumptuously arrogant; "had a witty but overweening manner"; "no idea how overweening he would be"; "getting a little uppity and needed to be slapped down"
  • Derived form noun uppityness1

OXFORD DICTIONARY

uppity, adj. colloq. uppish, snobbish.

Etymology
fanciful f. UP

THESAURUS

uppity

arrogant, audacious, big, brash, bumptious, cold, condescending, contumelious, cool, disdainful, domineering, familiar, forward, haughty, high-faluting, high-flown, high-headed, high-nosed, hoity-toity, hubristic, insolent, insulting, lofty, obtrusive, overbearing, overpresumptuous, overweening, patronizing, presuming, presumptuous, procacious, proud, purse-proud, pushful, pushing, pushy, self-asserting, self-assertive, stuck-up, superior, toplofty, uppish, upstage

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