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jumped-up
adjectives
(British informal) upstart
jumped-up
is similar to
making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction
"a pretentious country house"; "a pretentious fraud"; "a pretentious scholarly edition"
pretentious
domain region
a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom
Britain,
Great Britain,
U.K.,
UK,
United Kingdom,
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
domain usage
a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech
colloquialism
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