jumped-up

An informal British adjective used to describe someone who is acting as if they are more important than they really are, often due to having recently gained a higher status or position.

• 🇩🇪Informelles britisches Adjektiv, das eine Person beschreibt, die sich wichtiger aufführt, als sie ist, oft wegen eines kürzlichen Status- oder Positionsgewinns.

1. Upstart or arrogant C1 informal british

   Describes a person who behaves as if they are more important than they really are, often because they have recently gained success or power.

   • He's just a jumped-up office boy who thinks he's the manager.
   • Don't take orders from that jumped-up little clerk.
   • She's a jumped-up nobody who got lucky.

   🇩🇪Emporkömmling oder arrogant

   Synonyme: arrogantconceitedoverweeningpresumptuouspretentiousself-importantupstart

   Antonyme: humblemodestself-effacingunassuming

• more jumped-up comparative form
• most jumped-up superlative form