"jumped-up" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more jumped-up",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most jumped-up",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "jumped-up (comparative more jumped-up, superlative most jumped-up)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "2007, Nov 27. Scott Murray, writing in Guardian Unlimited: \"Stuttgart 3-2 Rangers\"\nWe're doomed if this wee jumped-up monkey gets Gordon Smith's blessing."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Thinking or acting as if one is superior, as by pretending to be of a higher class or having greater authority than is the case."
      ],
      "id": "en-jumped-up-en-adj-b6fHhUYm",
      "links": [
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "superior",
          "superior"
        ],
        [
          "class",
          "class"
        ],
        [
          "authority",
          "authority"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, derogatory) Thinking or acting as if one is superior, as by pretending to be of a higher class or having greater authority than is the case."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "derogatory",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "12 88",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1895, Punch, or the London Charivari, 24 August, 1895, \"'Arry on Harry\", https://books.google.ca/books?id=S5kwAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22jumped-up+cheap+Coventry%22&source=gbs_navlinks_s\nYou jumped-up, cheap, Coventry bagman, / silk-sampling, no doubt, is your biz"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1919, J.C. Snaith, chapter XXXIV, in The Undefeated, pages 233–234",
          "text": "Well, you can have all my share of democracy. Between you and me, Gert, it's mainly a name for a lot of jumped-up ignoramuses who have no idea of how little they do know.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter II, in Capricornia, page 27",
          "text": "[…] the faithful service he gave was pearl cast before mean, gutless, brainless, up-jumped swine […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1982, Tom Stoppard, On the Razzle",
          "text": "[…] I'm damned if I'm going to be harried and put off my stroke by the ridiculous self-importance of a jumped-up pastry-cook.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, George R. R. Martin, A Feast for Crows",
          "text": "My good wife flatters them, to call them knights. They’re upjumped sellswords, with not a thimble of chivalry to be found amongst the four of them.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Brian Stavely, The Emperor's Blades",
          "text": "The man was an upjumped peasant with delusions of his own importance.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Having risen from a lowly station or an inferior position, often with a conceited or arrogant attitude."
      ],
      "id": "en-jumped-up-en-adj-fbMAP9-4",
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "upstart"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
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      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d3/En-au-jumped-up.ogg/En-au-jumped-up.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d3/En-au-jumped-up.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ],
      "word": "upjumped"
    }
  ],
  "word": "jumped-up"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English adjectives",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English terms with audio links"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more jumped-up",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most jumped-up",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "jumped-up (comparative more jumped-up, superlative most jumped-up)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English derogatory terms",
        "English idioms"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "2007, Nov 27. Scott Murray, writing in Guardian Unlimited: \"Stuttgart 3-2 Rangers\"\nWe're doomed if this wee jumped-up monkey gets Gordon Smith's blessing."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Thinking or acting as if one is superior, as by pretending to be of a higher class or having greater authority than is the case."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "superior",
          "superior"
        ],
        [
          "class",
          "class"
        ],
        [
          "authority",
          "authority"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, derogatory) Thinking or acting as if one is superior, as by pretending to be of a higher class or having greater authority than is the case."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "derogatory",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1895, Punch, or the London Charivari, 24 August, 1895, \"'Arry on Harry\", https://books.google.ca/books?id=S5kwAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22jumped-up+cheap+Coventry%22&source=gbs_navlinks_s\nYou jumped-up, cheap, Coventry bagman, / silk-sampling, no doubt, is your biz"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1919, J.C. Snaith, chapter XXXIV, in The Undefeated, pages 233–234",
          "text": "Well, you can have all my share of democracy. Between you and me, Gert, it's mainly a name for a lot of jumped-up ignoramuses who have no idea of how little they do know.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter II, in Capricornia, page 27",
          "text": "[…] the faithful service he gave was pearl cast before mean, gutless, brainless, up-jumped swine […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1982, Tom Stoppard, On the Razzle",
          "text": "[…] I'm damned if I'm going to be harried and put off my stroke by the ridiculous self-importance of a jumped-up pastry-cook.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, George R. R. Martin, A Feast for Crows",
          "text": "My good wife flatters them, to call them knights. They’re upjumped sellswords, with not a thimble of chivalry to be found amongst the four of them.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Brian Stavely, The Emperor's Blades",
          "text": "The man was an upjumped peasant with delusions of his own importance.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Having risen from a lowly station or an inferior position, often with a conceited or arrogant attitude."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "upstart"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-jumped-up.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d3/En-au-jumped-up.ogg/En-au-jumped-up.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d3/En-au-jumped-up.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ],
      "word": "upjumped"
    }
  ],
  "word": "jumped-up"
}