uppitilyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

副詞

uppitily (comparative more uppitily, superlative most uppitily)

1. (rare) In an uppity manner.
   • 1933 May 12, The Charlotte News, Charlotte, N.C., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 24, column 1:

     Barber A. M. Cash, who is one big reason—about 300 pounds, I’d say—why Charlotte lawyers are not shaggy-haired, until quite recently got a kick out of uppitily walking through the front room at home where the boys and girls were in anguish over the jig-saw puzzles. “Any time you want ’em finished I’ll do it in ten minutes,” he’d tell ’em. They’d chase him out and go back to worrying. But one evening they called his bluff, they said.

   • 1988 September 16, Carolyn Clay, “Cherry jubilee: Trinity turns 25 with Chekhov”, in Richard M. Gaines, editor, The Boston Phoenix, volume XVII, number 38, Boston, Mass.: Boston Phoenix Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, section 3, page 26:

     Seething at her mistreatment of him in favor of the heartless and pretentious Yasha, Yepikhodov accuses Dunyasha of reducing him “to a complete and utter state of mind.” To which she replies uppitily, “Leave me alone; I’m busy dreaming.”

   • 2015 October 31, The Guardian, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page K5:

     “You describe an impossible task,” sniffed Punnish uppitily as he and Pembish headed for the tea-rooms at Downturn Abbey. “After all, it would be impossible to reassemble all the cannonballs in those 7 equal little square-pyramidal stacks into one big square-pyramidal stack twice as tall as any one of those 7 equal little square-pyramids of cannonballs.” What was Pembish’s uncontainable retainer on about?

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