Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - uppity
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Uppity
uppity
adjective Etymology: probably from up + -ity (as in persnickity, variant of persnickety) Date: 1880 putting on or marked by airs of superiority ; arrogant, presumptuous ~ technicians a small ~ country • uppitiness also ~ness noun
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4.
If you say that someone is uppity, you mean that they are behaving as if they were very important and you do not think that they are important. (INFORMAL) If you just tried to show normal dignity, you were viewed as uppity. ADJ c darkgreen]disapproval ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
5.
also uppish, BrE adj informal behaving as if you are more important than you really are (Now, don't start getting uppity with me, young man.) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
6.
- 1880, originally used by blacks of other blacks felt to be too self-assertive. The parallel British variant uppish (1678) originally meant "lavish;" the sense of "conceited, arrogant" being first recorded 1734. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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