Uppish

Definition: Uppish

Uppish

Adjective

1. 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".

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Date "uppish" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1884. (references)

Note: Uppish \Up"pish\, adjective. [From Up.]. (references)

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Uppish

Expression using "uppish": get uppish with smb.. Additional references.

Albanian

i fryrë (assuming, bloated, bombastic, bulging, bumptious, cock-a-hoop, conceited, extravagant, flatulent, fustian, grandiloquent, grandiose, high, highfaluting, high-sounding, hoity toity, inflated, mouthy, orotund, overblown, plethoric, pompous, puffed, puffed up, puffy, sounding, swollen, tumid, turgid, uppity, vainglorious). (various references)

Arabic 

‏معتد بنفسه (smug). (various references)

Bulgarian 

снобски (pseudo, ritzy, snobbish, snooty, upstage), самомнителен (bumptious, cocky, conceited, overweening, self sufficient, swanky, swashbuckling, uppity, upstage, vain), надут (bombastic, conceited, consequential, coxcombical, declamatory, florid, grandiloquent, haughty, high-blown, highfaluting, important, inflated, magniloquent, mandarin, mouthy, orotund, overblown, pompous, portentous, prancing, puffy, sidy, solemn, sounding, stilted, swelling, swollen, theatrical, tumid, uppity), надменен (airy, aloof, arrogant, assuming, assumptive, contemptuous, cool, disdainful, haughty, high, high and mighty, imperious, lofty, offhand, offish, overbearing, overweening, prideful, proud, proud-stomached, remote, scornful, stand offish, stiff, stuck up, sublime, supercilious, superior, top-lofty), арогантен (arrogant, dogmatic, hoity toity, huffy, insolent, overbearing, presuming). (various references)

Czech

povýšený (condescending, exalted, haughty, superciliary, supercilious), domýšlivý (arrogant, assuming, conceited, haughty, high and mighty, perky, pretentious, small beer, smug, snotty, upstage, vain), arogantní (arrogant, bigheaded, frosted, overbearing, self confident, smug, snotty, supercilious). (various references)

Farsi 

فوقانی (Capital, Upper, Upside), مغرور (Bigheaded, Haughty, Jaunty, Overbearing, Presumptuous, Proud, Snob, Snobbish, Stuffy, Supercilious, Swagger, Vain), باددرخیشوم انداز. (various references)

French

prétentieux (stuck up), bêcheur (upstart), arrogant (upstart). (various references)

German

hochnäsig (arrogant, snootily, snooty, stuck up, supercilious, uppity, upstage). (various references)

Greek 

ξιπασμένοσ (above oneself, cocky, conceited, consequential, pretentious, stuck up, vain), υπερήφανοσ (prance, prideful, proud), αλαζών (arrogant, haughty, presumer, saucy, stuck up). (various references)

Hungarian

beképzelt (boastful, cocky, foppish, have fire in one's belly, high and mighty, high minded, overweening, self-conceited, self-confident, self-important, smarty, snooty, stuck-up, swell-headed, to think no small potatoes of oneself, to think too much of oneself, uppity). (various references)

Indonesian

sombong (assertive, bigheaded, boastful, egotistic, haughty, plume, proud, vain, vainglorious). (various references)

Italian

superbo (arrogant, cavalier, haughty, magnificent, marvellous, proud, superb), presuntuoso (arrogant, assuming, assumptive, big-headed, bumptious, conceited, confident, consequential, jackanapes, opinionated, overweening, presumptuous, puppyish, self-righteous, uppity), impettito. (various references)

Pig Latin

ishuppay.(various references)

Portuguese

vaidoso (cockalorum, conceited, frivolous, grand, overweening, presumptuous, pretentious, proud, proud-spirited, self-satisfied, vain, vainglorious), presunçoso (bumptious, cock-a-hoop, conceited, overweening, presuming, presumptuous, self-confident, self-opinionated, self-sufficient, smug, snippy, upstage, vainglorious), orgulhoso (arrogant, boastful, flatulent, grand, haughty, proud, proud-spirited, snooty, stuck-up, supercilious), arrogante (arrogant, assuming, big, cockish, flatulent, haughty, huffish, imperious, lord-like, overbearing, perk, proud, proud-spirited, self-assertive, self-confident, self-pride, self-sufficient, snippy, stuck-up, supercilious, upstage), altivo (arrogant, haughty, lofty, perky, proud, proud-spirited, self-assertive, sniffy, snooty, stand-off, stand-offish, stuck-up, supercilious). (various references)

Romanian

obraznic (audacious, bad, barefaced, bold, boldly, brazenly, cheekily, cheeky, cocky, contemptuous, cool, disobedient, flippant, forward, fresh, graceless, impertinent, impudent, insolent, nasty, naughty, nervy, obtrusive, perky, pert, pertly, presumptuous, provocative, rebellious, sauce box, saucy, unruly, untoward), înfumurat (arrogant, bumptious, haughty, jackanapes, opinioned, overweening, self sufficient, stuck up, vain), încrezut (arrogant, assertive, bumptious, cocksure, cocky, conceited, high minded, jackanapes, opinioned, presuming, presumptuous, self confident, self-conceited, self-important, stuck up, supercilious, vain). (various references)

Russian 

чванный (donnish, po-faced). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uobražen (assuming, bighead, conceited, imaginary, overweening, presuming, pretentious, supercilious). (various references)

Swedish

snorkig (snooty, snotty, uppity), mallig (cocksy, cocky, high hat, hoity toity, swanky, uppity, upstage). (various references)

Turkish

mağrur (arrogant, conceited, disdainful, haughty, lofty, overweening, proud, snooty, supercilious, uppity, vainglorious), kibirli (arrogant, as proud as lucifer, assuming, bumptious, cavalier, conceited, consequential, disdainful, haughty, high-flown, hoity toity, holier-than-thou, hubristic, important, lofty, lordly, overweening, pontifical, proud, Sniffy, snooty, stiff necked, stuck up, stuffy, supercilious, superior, uppity, upstage, vain), kendini beğenmiş (arrogant, assuming, bighead, bigheaded, bumptious, cavalier, chesty, cocky, conceited, egotistical, haughty, high hat, high-flown, high-flying, hoity toity, hoity-toity, holier-than-thou, important, insufferable, jackanapes, jumped-up, mugwump, overweening, pompous, pretentious, prig, priggish, self sufficient, self-important, self-opinionated, self-righteous, smug, Sniffy, snooty, snotty, stuck up, stuffed shirt, stuffy, supercilious, swelled head, swollen-headed, taffy-nosed, toffee-nosed, toffy-nosed, uppity, upstage, vain). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "uppish": uppishly, uppishness, uppishnesses. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: hips, phis, pips, pish, pups, push, ship.

-3 letters: hip, his, hup, phi, pip, pis, piu, psi, pup, pus, sip, sup, ups.

-4 letters: hi, is, pi, sh, si, uh, up, us.

+1 letter: pupfish, pushpin.

+2 letters: eohippus, plumpish, puppyish, purplish, pushpins, quippish, uppishly.

+3 letters: pemphigus, pupfishes, unshipped, upmanship.

+4 letters: eohippuses, epiphanous, unhappiest, unshipping, upmanships, uppishness.

+5 letters: hippocampus, pemphiguses, phosphonium, superhyping, unhappiness.