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uppish (comparative more uppish, superlative most uppish)

1. (since circa 1678) Having plenty of money.
   • 1699, B.E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew in its Several Tribes of Gypsies, Beggers, Thieves, Cheats &c., London: W. Hawes et al.,^[1]

     Uppish, rampant, crowing, full of Money. He is very Uppish, well lined in the Fob […]

2. (colloquial) proud; arrogant; assuming
   • 1903, W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk, Chapter 13,^[2]

     “Heah that John is livenin’ things up at the darky school,” volunteered the postmaster, after a pause.

     “What now?” asked the Judge, sharply.

     “Oh, nothin’ in particulah,—just his almighty air and uppish ways. […] ”

   • 1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, chapter 12, in The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, OCLC 305520:

     When the other animals came back to luncheon, very boisterous and breezy after a morning on the river, the Mole, whose conscience had been pricking him, looked doubtfully at Toad, expecting to find him sulky or depressed. Instead, he was so uppish and inflated that the Mole began to suspect something; while the Rat and the Badger exchanged significant glances.

   • 1942, Emily Carr, “Sunday”, in The Book of Small:

     Family prayers were uppish with big words on Sunday—reverend Awe-full words that only God and Father understood.