uppish

[uhp-ish]

adjective

Informal.

1. arrogant; condescending; uppity.

uppish

/ ˈʌpɪʃ /

adjective

1. informal,  snobbish, arrogant, or presumptuous

Other Word Forms

• uppishly adverb
• uppishness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of uppish¹

First recorded in 1670–80; up + -ish ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of uppish¹

C18: from _up + _-ish

Example Sentences

We are quite uppish and sniff at the tinned stuff in the supply dump, we want fresh vegetables.

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As a young man, after Harvard and emigration to Paris to study with Nadia Boulanger, he might, he admits, have appeared “a shade uppish.”

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And of course, there are some flash expressions that have held over—and evolved into mainstream speech—like sans and uppish.

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Which some servants are awfully uppish, and thinks themselves no end of nobs.

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Whatever I do, or propose doing, I am met and stopped by those confounded uppish notions of hers, to which everything else must be kept subordinate.

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