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uppish
[ uhp-ish ]
adjective
Informal.
- arrogant; condescending; uppity.
uppish
/ ˈʌɪʃ /
adjective
- informal.snobbish, arrogant, or presumptuous
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Derived Forms
- ˈܱ辱, adverb
- ˈܱ辱Ա, noun
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Other 51Թ Forms
- ܱp· adverb
- ܱp·Ա noun
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of uppish1
C18: from up + -ish
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Example Sentences
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We are quite uppish and sniff at the tinned stuff in the supply dump, we want fresh vegetables.
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As a young man, after Harvard and emigration to Paris to study with Nadia Boulanger, he might, he admits, have appeared “a shade uppish.”
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And of course, there are some flash expressions that have held over—and evolved into mainstream speech—like sans and uppish.
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Which some servants are awfully uppish, and thinks themselves no end of nobs.
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Whatever I do, or propose doing, I am met and stopped by those confounded uppish notions of hers, to which everything else must be kept subordinate.
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