new-rich
[noo-rich, nyoo-]
- newly or suddenly wealthy.
- characteristic of a newly or suddenly wealthy person: a new-rich display of expensive jewelry.
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Origin of new-rich
First recorded in 1885–90
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Historical Examples
The "new-rich" have no other way of bringing themselves into notice and contempt.
Memoir of John Howe PeytonVarious
They knew them slightly as the daughters of a new-rich family who were hangers-on of the fashionable society in Trenton.
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904Lucy Maud Montgomery
Among the highest types of American manhood to-day a large majority are the new-rich men.
Every Man His Own UniversityRussell H. Conwell
Bribery was carried to a preposterous height, and the new-rich bought seats as openly as they bought their horses.
The Political History of England - Vol. X.William Hunt
There is a race of the new-rich—of the recently honoured, here, who are French from their shoe-rosettes to their chignons.
The Cockaynes in ParisBlanchard Jerrold