uppity

2 definitions found

uppity - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  uppity
      adj 1: presumptuously arrogant; "had a witty but overweening
             manner"; "no idea how overweening he would be"-
             S.V.Benet; "getting a little uppity and needed to be
             slapped down"- NY Times [syn: overweening, uppity]

uppity - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  43 Moby Thesaurus words for "uppity":
     arrogant, audacious, big, brash, bumptious, cold, condescending,
     contumelious, cool, disdainful, domineering, familiar, forward,
     haughty, high-faluting, high-flown, high-headed, high-nosed,
     hoity-toity, hubristic, insolent, insulting, lofty, obtrusive,
     overbearing, overpresumptuous, overweening, patronizing, presuming,
     presumptuous, procacious, proud, purse-proud, pushful, pushing,
     pushy, self-asserting, self-assertive, stuck-up, superior,
     toplofty, uppish, upstage