Crossword clues for jumped-up
jumped-up
The Collaborative International Dictionary
jumped-up \jumped-up\ adj. Upstart. [British informal]
Wiktionary
a. (context idiomatic pejorative English) Describes a person who thinks or acts as if he/she is superior in some way that the speaker disagrees with. For instance, pretending to be of a higher class or having greater authority than he/she has in reality.
WordNet
adj. (British informal) upstart
Usage examples of "jumped-up".
One of the two troopers escorting them whirled with the preternatural speed of jumped-up cyborg reflexes, and cranked off a couple of antipersonnel grenades from the launcher built into his left elbow.
I want to sit down in a chophouse and feel at ease without some jumped-up gentry sneering about trade.
Instead, the Count of Eastlake had ignored Vansen’s message as the cowardly advice of a commoner, a jumped-up sentry in Droy Nikomede’s estimation, and had plunged his weary soldiers into battle.
Bit of jumped-up trash was that bolt of goods, but she had the money, and who am I to argue with the lovely clink of cold cash in these hard times?
The vice chairman of Polaris, a jumped-up German sausage-maker who never in a million years could have gotten into the club on his own, was now at Woodland, courtesy of Wilson McDonald.
I don't intend to end as an hors d'oeuvre for a jumped-up tin goddess.