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Definition: Uppity |
UppityAdjective1. 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. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "uppity" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1939. (references) |
Synonym: UppitySynonym: overweening (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Uppity |
| English words defined with "uppity": bigheaded ♦ overweening ♦ persnickety ♦ snooty, snot-nosed, snotty, stuck-up ♦ too big for one's breeches ♦ uppish. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I mean, with all due respect, you sort of walk around with uppity breasts, and the hair flips aren't the most subtle (Ally McBeal; writing credit: Henri Vernes) Well, ain't you the uppity one (A Girl Named Sooner; writing credit: Suzanne Clauser; Marilyn Harris) | |
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| "Uppity" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Uppity" is used about 30 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 30 | 63,341 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "uppity": get uppity with smb.. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "uppity": uppity-know-all. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
saffire the uppity blues woman | 5 |
blues uppity woman | 5 |
negro.com uppity | 3 |
uppity | 2 |
uppity woman | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "uppity"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i fryrë (assuming, bloated, bombastic, bulging, bumptious, cock-a-hoop, conceited, extravagant, flatulent, fustian, grandiloquent, grandiose, high, highfaluting, high-sounding, hoity toity, inflated, mouthy, orotund, overblown, plethoric, pompous, puffed, puffed up, puffy, sounding, swollen, tumid, turgid, uppish, vainglorious). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | самомнителен (bumptious, cocky, conceited, overweening, self sufficient, swanky, swashbuckling, uppish, upstage, vain), надут (bombastic, conceited, consequential, coxcombical, declamatory, florid, grandiloquent, haughty, high-blown, highfaluting, important, inflated, magniloquent, mandarin, mouthy, orotund, overblown, pompous, portentous, prancing, puffy, sidy, solemn, sounding, stilted, swelling, swollen, theatrical, tumid, uppish). (various references) | |
Farsi | مغرور(uppish=). (various references) | |
French | insouciant, impétueux, culotté. (various references) | |
German | dreist (audacious, bold, brash, brave, brazen, brazenly, cheekily, courageous, daring, forward, fresh, impudent, impudently, naughtily, naughty, perkily, perky, presumptuous, unabashed, valiant). (various references) | |
Greek | αλαζονεία (arrogance, conceit, haughtiness, presumption, pride, uppishness). (various references) | |
Hungarian | elbizakodott (cock-sure, consequential, overweening, perky, pretentious, self-complacent, self-conceited, self-confident, self-important, stuck-up), beképzelt (boastful, cocky, foppish, have fire in one's belly, high and mighty, high minded, overweening, self-conceited, self-confident, self-important, smarty, snooty, stuck-up, swell-headed, to think no small potatoes of oneself, to think too much of oneself, uppish). (various references) | |
Italian | presuntuoso (arrogant, assuming, assumptive, big-headed, bumptious, conceited, confident, consequential, jackanapes, opinionated, overweening, presumptuous, puppyish, self-righteous, uppish), baldanzoso (bold, confident, perky). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ityuppay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | insolente (arrogant, cockish, contemptuous, contumelious, flip, huffy, immodest, impertinent, insolent, lingerer, lord-like, malapert, pert, rough, rude, saucy, thrasonical), desfaçado, atrevido (audacious, boastful, bold, cheeky, daring, gay, impertinent, insolent, malapert, pert, presumptuous, pushing, saucy, wanton, waspish). (various references) | |
Russian | высокомерный (arrogant, assuming, cavalier, domineering, haughty, high and mighty, highbrow, insolent, overweening, proud-stomached, sniffy, snooty, stiff necked, stuck up, stuck-up, supercilious, tossy). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | arogantan (arrogant, high handed, presumptuous, wise). (various references) | |
Spanish | snob (snob, snobbish, snobby), engreído (bighead, bigheaded, bumptious, conceited, snotty nosed, snotty-faced, stuck up, vain). (various references) | |
Swedish | snorkig (snooty, snotty, uppish), mallig (cocksy, cocky, high hat, hoity toity, swanky, uppish, upstage). (various references) | |
Turkish | mağrur (arrogant, conceited, disdainful, haughty, lofty, overweening, proud, snooty, supercilious, uppish, vainglorious), kibirli (arrogant, as proud as lucifer, assuming, bumptious, cavalier, conceited, consequential, disdainful, haughty, high-flown, hoity toity, holier-than-thou, hubristic, important, lofty, lordly, overweening, pontifical, proud, Sniffy, snooty, stiff necked, stuck up, stuffy, supercilious, superior, uppish, upstage, vain), kendini beğenmiş (arrogant, assuming, bighead, bigheaded, bumptious, cavalier, chesty, cocky, conceited, egotistical, haughty, high hat, high-flown, high-flying, hoity toity, hoity-toity, holier-than-thou, important, insufferable, jackanapes, jumped-up, mugwump, overweening, pompous, pretentious, prig, priggish, self sufficient, self-important, self-opinionated, self-righteous, smug, Sniffy, snooty, snotty, stuck up, stuffed shirt, stuffy, supercilious, swelled head, swollen-headed, taffy-nosed, toffee-nosed, toffy-nosed, uppish, upstage, vain). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | пихатість (assuming, assumption, bombast, haughtiness, insolence, insolency, magniloquence, prance). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "uppity": uppityness, uppitynesses. (additional references) | |
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"Uppity" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: apity, oppit, upfit, upity, uppetty, uppety, uppityc, uppy, upty. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "uppity" (pronounced u"putē) |
| 4 | -p u t ē | serendipity. |
| 3 | -u t ē | absurdity, acceptability, accessibility, ability, abnormality, accountability, acidity, activity, actuality, acuity, adaptability, admissibility, adversity, advisability, affinity, affordability, aggressivity, agility, alacrity, alkalinity, ambiguity, amenity, amiability, amity, analyticity, animosity, annuity, anonymity, antiquity, anxiety, applicability, atrocity, audacity, austerity, authenticity, authority, availability, banality, barbarity, believability, bestiality, biodiversity, bisexuality, brevity, brutality, calamity, capability, capacity, captivity, causality, cavity, celebrity, centrality, charity, chastity, civility, clarity, collegiality, commodity, commonality, community, comparability, compatibility, complexity, complicity, comprehensibility, conditionality, conductivity, confidentiality, conformity, congeniality, congruity, connectivity, constitutionality, continuity, convertibility, creativity, credibility, credulity, criminality, criticality, crotchety, culpability, curiosity, cyclicality, debility, deductibility, deformity, deity, deniability, density, dependability, depravity, deputy, desirability, dexterity, dignity, dimensionality, disability, discontinuity, irresponsibility, irritability, laity, laxity, legality, disparity, dissimilarity, disunity, diversity, divinity, docility, domesticity, duality, ductility, duplicity, durability, eccentricity, elasticity, electability, electricity, eligibility, enforceability, enmity, enormity, entity, equality, equanimity, equity, eternity, ethnicity, eventuality, exclusivity, expressivity, extraterritoriality, extremity, facility, fallibility, falsity, familiarity, fatality, feasibility, Felicity, femininity, ferocity, fertility, festivity, fidelity, finality, flammability, flexibility, fluidity, formality, fragility, fraternity, frivolity, frugality, functionality, futility, generality, generosity, geniality, gentility, gratuity, gravity, gullibility, heredity, heterogeneity, heterosexuality, hilarity, homogeneity, homosexuality, hospitality, hostility, humanity, humidity, humility, hyperactivity, hypersensitivity, identity, illegality, illiquidity, immaturity, immobility, immorality, immortality, immunity, impartiality, impersonality, impossibility, impropriety, impunity, impurity, inability, inaccessibility, inactivity, incapacity, incivility, incompatibility, incongruity, incredulity, indemnity, indestructibility, indignity, individuality, inequality, inequity, inevitability, infallibility, inferiority, infertility, infidelity, infinity, infirmity, inflexibility, informality, ingenuity, inhumanity, insanity, insecurity, insensitivity, instability, instrumentality, insularity, integrity, intensity, invincibility, invisibility, invulnerability, irrationality, irregularity, legibility, lethality, levity, liability, liberality, liquidity, lividity, locality, longevity, majority, malleability, maneuverability, marketability, masculinity, materiality, maternity, maturity, mediocrity, mendacity, mentality, minority, miscibility, mobility, modality, modernity, monstrosity, morality, morbidity, mortality, motility, multiplicity, municipality, musicality, mutuality, nationality, nativity, necessity, negativity, neutrality, nobility, Nonconformity, nonentity, nonutility, normality, notoriety, nudity, obesity, objectivity, obscenity, obscurity, oddity, opacity, opportunity, originality, overcapacity, oversensitivity, palatability, parity, partiality, particularity, passivity, paternity, paucity, peculiarity, permeability, perpetuity, perplexity, personality, perversity, piety, plausibility, plurality, polarity, polity, pomposity, popularity, portability, possibility, posterity, practicality, predictability, principality, priority, probability, probity, proclivity, productivity, profanity, profitability, progressivity, promiscuity, propensity, proportionality, propriety, prosperity, proximity, publicity, punctuality, purity, quality, quantity, radioactivity, rapidity, rarity, rationality, reactivity, readability, reality, receptivity, reciprocity, reflexivity, regularity, relativity, reliability, religiosity, respectability, responsibility, retroactivity, rickety, rigidity, salinity, sanctity, sanity, scarcity, seasonality, security, selectivity, senility, seniority, sensibility, sensitivity, sensuality, sentimentality, serenity, severity, sexuality, similarity, simplicity, sincerity, sobriety, society, solemnity, solidarity, solidity, sorority, speciality, specificity, spirituality, spontaneity, stability, sterility, stupidity, subjectivity, suitability, superconductivity, superfluidity, superiority, supermajority, surety, survivability, susceptibility, sustainability, technicality, temerity, tenacity, theatricality, timidity, tonality, totality, toxicity, tranquility, transferability, Trinity, triviality, turbidity, ubiquity, unanimity, unavailability, unfamiliarity, uniformity, unity, universality, university, unpopularity, unpredictability, unreality, unreliability, utility, validity, vanity, variability, variety, varsity, velocity, velvety, venality, veracity, Verity, versatility, viability, vicinity, virginity, virility, virtuosity, viscosity, visibility, vitality, volatility, voracity, vulgarity, vulnerability. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-p-p-t-u-y" | |
-1 letter: tippy. | |
-2 letters: pipy, pity, typp. | |
-3 letters: pip, pit, piu, pup, put, tip, tui, tup, yip, yup. | |
-4 letters: it, pi, ti, up, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-p-p-t-u-y" | |
+2 letters: tittuppy. | |
+4 letters: perpetuity, popularity, uppityness. | |
+5 letters: opportunity, perspicuity, propinquity, suppliantly, suppository. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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