Usually means: Somewhat arrogant or presumptuously assertive.
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  1. uppish: Merriam-Webster
  2. uppish: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. uppish: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. uppish: Collins English Dictionary
  5. uppish: Vocabulary.com
  6. uppish: Wordnik
  7. uppish: Wiktionary
  8. uppish: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. uppish: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. uppish: Dictionary.com
  11. Uppish: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. uppish: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. uppish: Rhymezone
  14. Uppish: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. UPPISH: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  16. uppish: FreeDictionary.org
  17. uppish: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. uppish: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. uppish: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. uppish: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (uppish)

adjective:  (since circa 1678) Having plenty of money.
adjective:  (colloquial) proud; arrogant; assuming
adjective:  (cricket, of a shot) In which the ball is hit into the air, with the chance of being caught.

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