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Uppishness

Definition: Uppishness

Uppishness

Noun

1. Assumption of airs beyond one's station.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Synonym: Uppishness

Synonym: uppityness (n). (additional references)

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Modern Translation: Uppishness

Language Translations for "uppishness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

снобизъм (snobbery), нахалство (arrogance, cheek, contumely, crust, face, front, gall, impertinence, insolence, lip, mouth, neck, nerve, presumption, sauciness, temerity), надутост (airiness, bombast, flatulence, flatulency, fustian, grandiloquence, haughtiness, inflation, magniloquence, pomposity, self-importance, theatricality), надменност (arrogance, assumption, disdain, distance, haughtiness, hauteur, pride, stiffness, swelled head), дързост (arrogance, assumption, audacity, cheek, contumely, daring, forwardness, hardihood, hardiness, impudence, intrepidity, nerve, pluck, sauce, temerity). (various references)

   

Czech

  

domýšlivost (arrogance, cockiness, conceit, haughtiness, self-importance). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αλαζονεία (arrogance, conceit, haughtiness, presumption, pride, uppity). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ishnessuppay.(various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

tính trịch thượng. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Uppishness

Derivations

Words beginning with "uppishness": uppishnesses. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Uppishness

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-h-i-n-p-p-s-s-s-u"

-1 letter: pushiness.

-2 letters: punishes, pushpins, shippens.

-3 letters: hipness, hussies, pepsins, puisnes, pushpin, pussies, shippen, sinuses, supines, unships.

-4 letters: hisses, issues, pepsin, pinups, pishes, pisses, puisne, punish, pushes, pusses, sepsis, shines, snipes, speiss, spines, supine, sushis, unship, uppish.

-5 letters: issue, nisus, peins, penis, pines, pinup, pipes, puses, shies, shine, shins, ships, shuns, sines, sinhs, sinus, sipes, sises.

 Words containing the letters "e-h-i-n-p-p-s-s-s-u"
 

+2 letters: uppishnesses.

 

+3 letters: unhappinesses.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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