Crossword clues for uppish
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1670s, "lavish," from up (adv.) + -ish. Sense of "conceited, arrogant, proudly self-assertive" attested from 1734. Related: Uppishly; uppishness.
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context since circa 1678 English) Having plenty of money. 2 (context colloquial English) Proud; arrogant; assuming; putting on airs of superiority. 3 (context cricket of a shot English) In which the ball is hit into the air, with the chance of being caught
WordNet
adj. 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" [syn: bigheaded, persnickety, snooty, snot-nosed, snotty, stuck-up, too big for one's breeches]
Usage examples of "uppish".
Dubble had a cottage not far distant, with a scolding wife and an uppish daughter, and that it was because she knew of his home discomforts that Miss Tranter allowed him to pass many of his evenings at her inn, smoking and sipping a mild ale, which without fuddling his brains, assisted him in part to forget for a time his domestic worries.
She embarked on the task of peace-making, soothing her ruffled parent by agreeing that Cardle was detestably uppish, but saying that she was so devoted to her mistress that she resented it if even Mama’s own daughter dared to perform any service for her which she regarded as her sole prerogative.