uppish

As a young man, after Harvard and emigration to Paris to study with Nadia Boulanger, he might, he admits, have appeared “a shade uppish.”

And of course, there are some flash expressions that have held over—and evolved into mainstream speech—like sans and uppish.

Which some servants are awfully uppish, and thinks themselves no end of nobs.

Whatever I do, or propose doing, I am met and stopped by those confounded uppish notions of hers, to which everything else must be kept subordinate.

If Hiram got one good licking he wouldn’t be quite so uppish.