See jumped-up on Wiktionary
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"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."
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"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"
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"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.",
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"ref": "1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter II, in Capricornia, page 27:",
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"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.",
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"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.\"",
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"ref": "2014, Brian Stavely, The Emperor's Blades:",
"text": "The man was an upjumped peasant with delusions of his own importance.",
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},
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