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uppish, a. (ˈʌpɪʃ) Also 8–9 upish. [f. up adv.2 + -ish.] † 1. a. Flush of money. Obs.1678 in Pollock Popish Plot (1903) App. B. 382 The one saying to the other that..he would treat him..with wine and oysters, whereupon the other replied..: ‘What you are uppish then, are you?’ a 1700 B. E. Dict. Cant...
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uppish
uppish/ˈʌpɪʃ; `ʌpɪʃ/ adj(infml 口 esp Brit) (also esp US uppity / ˈʌpətɪ; `ʌpətɪ/) self-assertive or arrogant 盛气凌人的; 傲慢的 Don't get uppish with me, young lady! 小姐, 别对我这麽傲慢!
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Something Got Me Started
Caroline Sullivan from Melody Maker felt it's "epitomising the uppish, zesty ambience" of the Stars album.
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uppishly
ˈuppishly, adv. [f. uppish a. + -ly2.] a. Cricket. Of the ball, etc.: in a slightly upward direction, esp. so as to give some chance of a catch.1904 P. F. Warner How we recovered Ashes 109 Just after he had passed his hundred, he sent one uppishly through the slips. 1955 A. Ross Australia 55 137 Hut...
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Beverly Gray
they are met by Roger's friend Sir Terence "Terry" Cartwright, "a jolly, good-looking young man" who "wore his clothes well, had money, was not a bit uppish
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uppity
uppity, a. colloq. (orig. and chiefly U.S.). (ˈʌpɪtɪ) [f. up adv.1 + -it- + -y1: cf. biggity a.] Above oneself, self-important, ‘jumped-up’; arrogant, haughty, pert, putting on airs. Cf. uppish a. 2 d. a. attrib.1880 J. C. Harris Uncle Remus 86 Hit wuz wunner deze yer uppity little Jack Sparrers, I ...
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First Test, 1948 Ashes series
The pair did not give a chance apart from when Compton aimed an uppish square drive from Johnston that flew in the air wide of cover point.
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cockish
cockish, a. (ˈkɒkɪʃ) [f. cock n.1 + -ish.] 1. Of or pertaining to a cock (obs.); now only humorous, cocklike.1577 B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. iv. (1586) 161 Such [Hens] as after the Cockishe maner either crowe or treade. Ibid. iv. 158 [Hens] free from spurres: for such as weare those Cockish weapons,...
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Bill Johnston with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948
closest he came to a wicket on the third afternoon when Len Hutton and Denis Compton were putting on a century partnership was when Compton aimed an uppish
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offish
offish, a. colloq. (ˈɒfɪʃ, ɔː-) [f. off adv. + -ish1: cf. uppish.] Inclined to keep aloof; distant in manner. Cf. stand-offish. Hence ˈoffishness.1834 C. A. Davis Lett. J. Downing 75 Others are a little offish. 1842 Betsy Bobbet 289 (Farmer), I am naturally pretty offish and retirin' in my ways with...
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The Diary of a Nobody
and Carrie, in what Paul Taylor in The Independent described as "essentially a two-hander ... in which all the other folk (including Lupin Pooter, the uppish
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-ish
▪ I. -ish1 a suffix forming adjs., of Com. Teut. origin; Goth. -isks, ON. -iskr, OHG., OS., OFris., OE. -isc, Ger., Du. -isch: cognate with Gr. -ισκ-ος dim. suffix of ns. Sometimes syncopated to -sh (spelt also -ch). In Scottish usually -is, syncopated -s, -ce. In words of old formation, the prec. v...
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Indian cricket team in Australia in 2003–04
Tendulkar, who had come under scrutiny for his below-par performances, began to play a solid innings, but a compact one with no uppish shots.
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dicty
dicty, a. U.S. slang. (ˈdɪktɪ) [Origin unknown.] a. Conceited; snobbish. b. Elegant, stylish, high-class.1926 A. Niles in W. C. Handy Blues 22 Gay-cattin' 'roun' with dicty cats. Ibid. 33 Dicty, uppish and conceited. 1926 C. Van Vechten Nigger Heaven 12 ‘Winter Palace?’ she inquired... ‘Naw..too man...
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swing-
swing- in combination. 1. In general attrib. or adj. use (mostly without hyphen, as a separate word). a. Applied to a piece of mechanism, apparatus, or utensil suspended, hinged, or pivoted so as to be capable of oscillating or turning to and fro: = swinging ppl. a. 1, 2. (See also 2.)1791 Rep. Comm...
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