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Jumped-up   /dʒəmpt-əp/   Listen
Jumped-up

adjective
1.
(British informal) upstart.





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"Jumped-up" Quotes from Famous Books



... said Henchard. "The thing—why 'tis impossible it should act. 'Twas brought here by one of our machinists on the recommendation of a jumped-up jackanapes of a fellow who thinks——" His eye caught Elizabeth-Jane's imploring face, and he stopped, probably thinking that ...
— The Mayor of Casterbridge • Thomas Hardy
... Anson. "What for? Where's your evidence? You've got a jumped-up cock-and-bull story made by a fellow-clerk who says one thing while I say another. You've only his word for it. You've found no diamonds on me, and you've found none ...
— A Dash from Diamond City • George Manville Fenn


Words linked to "Jumped-up" :   United Kingdom, pretentious, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, U.K., colloquialism, UK, Great Britain, Britain


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