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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



... Guess I don't allus hit it with the Padre. No, I guess ther' ain't a heap of good feeling among the three of us. But before you leave here I want to say jest one thing, an' it's this. Sheriff or no sheriff, deputies or no deputies, if they're lookin' fer the Padre for murder I say it's a jumped-up fake. That man couldn't do a murder, not to save his soul. An' it'll give me a whole heap o' pleasure fixin' up your winter stores. An' good luck to you both—when you hit ...
— The Golden Woman - A Story of the Montana Hills • Ridgwell Cullum



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



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