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[syn: bigheaded, persnickety, snooty, snot-nosed, snotty, stuck-up, too big for one's breeches, uppish]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
uppish
adj 1: (used colloquially) 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, uppish]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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