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What (who) is uppish - definition
uppish
¦ adjective informal arrogantly self-assertive.
Derivatives
uppishly adverb
uppishness noun
Uppish
·adj Proud; arrogant; assuming; putting on airs of superiority.
uppish
a.
(Colloq.) Proud, arrogant, haughty, assuming, smart, perk, perky.
Examples of use of uppish
1. Australia 51–0 Over 10: Uppish drive from Langer but over backward point.
2. But Patel keeps his discipline nicely and might have had a wicket if Pietersen‘s uppish cover–drive had picked out a fielder.
3. A no–ball doesn‘t impress him either, and there‘s four runs to Flintoff, who gets off the mark with an uppish carve through backward point.
4. The luck is going their way too as Bell is surprised by Kaneria‘s bounce and picks up two very uppish runs to third man as he aims to cut.
5. Ian Bell." 24th over: India 130–1 (Dravid 65, Pathan 31), target 238 Flintoff takes a power play, but Dravid sees it and raises it with blistering back–to–back boundaries from James Anderson‘s first two balls; the first is an uppish drive to long–on, while the next is a rasping cut to point.