uppity
Adjective Satellite
- presumptuously arrogant; ; - S.V.Benet; - NY Times
- "getting a little uppity and needed to be slapped down"
Adj
- Presumptuous, above oneself, self-important; arrogant, snobbish, haughty.
- Exceeding one's station or position, assuming prerogatives to which one is not entitled.
Adjective
- Acting snobbish or arrogant; presumptuous.
Examples
- His opponent grew UPPITY after scoring a triple-word play, but the game wasn’t over.
Origin / Etymology
From earlier uppedy, equivalent to up + -ed + -y; compare blackity, biggity, and hippity (and possibly also persnickety, pernickety). First attested around 1880 in Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris to describe Jack Sparrer (Jack Sparrow), who tattled on Br'er Rabbit (see quotations below). Compare uppish.
Synonyms
overweening, airy, arrogant, authoritarian, big-headed, biggity, blustery, boastful, bombastic, buggish, cocky, conceited, disdainful, domineering, egotistical, entitled, flatulent, flaunting, full of oneself, grandiose, hankty, haught, haughty, haut, high and mighty, high-handed, high-hat, highfalutin, hoity-toity, holier-than-thou, imperious, inflated, insolent, la-di-da, ostentatious, overbearing, pompous, presumptuous, pretentious, priggish, puffed up, sanctimonious, self-important, snobbish, snooty, snotty, stout, stuck up, supercilious, thrasonic, thrasonical, toploftical, toplofty, tumid, turgid, uppish, uppity, uppy, upstage, vain
Scrabble Score: 13
uppity: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Worduppity: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
uppity: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary