uppity

Etymology
From earlier, equivalent to ; compare , , and (and possibly also , ). First attested around 1880 in Uncle Remus by to describe Jack Sparrer (Jack Sparrow), who tattled on Br'er Rabbit (see quotations below). Compare.

Adjective

 * 1) Presumptuous, above oneself, self-important; arrogant, snobbish, haughty.
 * 2) Exceeding one's station or position, assuming prerogatives to which one is not entitled.
 * 1) Exceeding one's station or position, assuming prerogatives to which one is not entitled.
 * 1) Exceeding one's station or position, assuming prerogatives to which one is not entitled.

Usage notes

 * This term has historically been used in America to describe black people who were considered to be acting above "their place", and is considered by some to have racist connotations when applied to people of color; sometimes arrogant or presumptuous, invoking the same idea, are used as codewords for it.

Translations

 * Danish: snobbet, fisefornem, arrogant, hovmodig, hoven, indbildsk, opblæst,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * German:, ,
 * Lithuanian: pasikėlęs, pasikėlusi
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: oppesen, hovferdig, nesevis, , eplekjekk,
 * Plautdietsch: ippich, grootsch
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish: subidito
 * Swedish:


 * Danish: opsætsig, næsvis, flabet, trodsig, fræk
 * Swedish: