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uppity; uppidy adjective brash; arrogant; refusing to accept one’s place in society US, 1880 Originally coined by southern blacks, now widely used.- [He] snatched an uppity dame right up from her seat and waltzed her out on the dance floor, pince-nez and all. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 85, 1946
- Sapphire feels real uppity while shopping in the “better” department stores because she knows they don’t expect her to be able to afford the prices. — Carolyn Greene, 70 Soul Secrets of Sapphire, p. 28, 1973
- I’d been a uppity M.F. all along[.] — Babs Gonzales, Movin’ On Down De Line, p. 34, 1975
- [w]hile the peckerwoods called me an uppidy nigger wench who was always fulla sass[.] — Donald Goines, The Busting Out of an Ordinary Man, p. 53, 1985
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