purse-proud

[ purs-proud ]

/ ˈpɜrsˌpraʊd /

proud of one's wealth, especially in an arrogant or showy manner.

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First recorded in 1675–85

Though, purse-proud with your riches, you strut along, yet fortune does not alter your birth.
The Works of Horace|Horace
Sometimes it was a snobbish, purse-proud class, as in the case of the present juniors.
Molly Brown's Sophomore Days|Nell Speed
One trapper named Jones was so successful at this business of trapping seals with the net that he became "purse-proud."
Grenfell: Knight-Errant of the North|Fullerton Waldo
And this does not look very well in one who, when he was poor, was particularly bitter on "a purse-proud aristocracy."
Duffels|Edward Eggleston

Let us hope, in all charity, that purse-proud bounder and the barmaid married, and lived happily ever after.
The Old Inns of Old England, Volume II (of 2)|Charles G. Harper