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Jumped-up   Listen
adjective
jumped-up  adj.  Upstart. (British informal)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Jumped-up" Quotes from Famous Books



... Mission of the Mother of Sorrows, there to pour forth his unbelievable tale to Father Dominic. Whereupon Father Dominic would spring into his prehistoric automobile and come up to investigate. Great jumped-up Jehoshaphat! What a climax to two years ...
— The Pride of Palomar • Peter B. Kyne

... where youre wrong. Dont flatter yourselves that youre miserable sinners. Am I a miserable sinner? No: I'm a fraud and a failure. I started in to be a bad man like the rest of you. You all started in to be bad men or you wouldn't be in this jumped-up, jerked-off, hospital-turned-out camp that calls itself a town. I took the broad path because I thought I was a man and not a snivelling canting turning-the-other-cheek apprentice angel serving his time in a vale of tears. ...
— The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet • George Bernard Shaw



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