单词 | uppity |
释义 | uppityadj. colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.). Above oneself, self-important, ‘jumped-up’; arrogant, haughty, pert, putting on airs. Cf. uppish adj. 2d. a. attributive. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > pretension to superiority > [adjective] taunt?a1534 cocket1537 fastuous?1591 cobbing1599 whalebone1602 airy1606 fastigious1625 flatuous1630 high and mighty1633 vapouring1647 flatulent1658 hoity-toity1690 jackanapish1696 superior1711 penseful1788 uppish1789 pensy1790 stuck-up1812 glorified1821 toploftical1823 pretentious1832 sophomoric1837 highty-tighty1847 snippy1848 jumped-up1852 set-up1856 toplofty1859 cock-aloft1861 high-tone1864 high-toned1866 pretensivea1868 fancy-pants1870 hunched1870 snotty1870 head-in-air1880 uppity1880 jackanapsian1881 airified1882 sidey1898 posh1914 upstage1918 snooty1919 high-hatted1924 hincty1924 snot-nosed1941 posho1989 1880 J. C. Harris Uncle Remus: Songs & Sayings 86 Hit wuz wunner deze yer uppity little Jack Sparrers, I speck. 1933 Times Lit. Suppl. 9 Nov. 776/2 Grammy is living contentedly enough with an ‘uppity’ young creature named Penny. 1952 F. L. Allen Big Change ii. viii. 130 The effect of the automobile revolution was especially noticeable in the South, where one began to hear whites complaining about ‘uppity niggers’ on the highways, where there was no Jim Crow. 1982 B. Chatwin On Black Hill v. 28 He had a head for figures and a method for dealing with ‘uppity’ tenants. b. predicative. ΚΠ 1932 Sun (Baltimore) 23 Aug. 6/2 [She] could have plenty o' friends. The trouble with her is she thinks folks too common to bother with unless they're too uppity to bother with her. 1947 ‘N. Shute’ Chequer Board 68 They've been here alone too long, and they've got uppity. 1955 F. O' Connor Wise Blood v. 89 I reckon you ain't as uppity as you was last night. 1966 D. Bagley Wyatt's Hurricane i. 27 The Navy is trying to build up Cap Sarrat as a substitute for Guantanamo in case Castro gets uppity and takes it from them. 1973 P. White Eye of Storm viii. 381 I came prepared to rough it... It's Dorothy who grows uppity if all the cons aren't mod. Derivatives ˈuppitiness n. the quality of being ‘uppity’; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > pretension to superiority > [noun] pensifulnessc1450 affectation1548 affection1570 affectedness1622 lady aira1637 fastuousness1649 gentility1650 fastuosity1656 vapouring1656 flatulency1662 hoity-toity1668 pretendingness1701 with an air1701 pretension1706 flatulence1711 uppishness1716 high and mightiness1771 pensieness1825 fine-gentlemanism1831 pretentiousness1838 ambitiousness1845 stuckupishness1853 pretensiveness1859 notion1866 side1870 dog1871 hoity-toityism1881 superiority complex1921 snootiness1932 uppitiness1935 snottiness1973 snoot1984 swag2002 1935 H. L. Davis Honey in Horn x. 145 Clay's bravery and uppitiness had done nothing. 1966 Listener 27 Oct. 622/1 She had decided that Joyce was ‘pretentious’ and ‘under-bred’... But who was Virginia Woolf to talk (in this purely literary sense) of ‘uppitiness’? 1975 Listener 9 Oct. 479/1 Few delegates seemed versed in Private Eye nomenclature and would, anyway, disapprove of such uppityness. 1982 R. Barnard Death & Princess ii. 17 Joe may appreciate my couthness..but he can sniff out uppitiness. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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