jumped-up in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for jumped-up in the English»Bulgarian Dictionary

jumped-up [ˈdʒʌmptʌp] ADJ Brit pej inf

jumped-up

парвенюшки

jumped-up

арогантен

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

This jumped-up office boy had no right to impugn the lady's right to use the government's services, to which she was legally entitled.

www.digitaljournal.com

So are these optimism exercises and mindfulness techniques just a jumped-up form of self-help?

www.independent.co.uk

And once some jumped-up, bonus-hungry manager has pegged you, that's your work life over.

www.thenational.scot

The system worked fine when we were a jumped-up colony.

www.smh.com.au

Amid all the jumped-up melodrama, he suddenly gives a taste of genuine horror.

www.telegraph.co.uk

You couldn't help but notice her two backup singers, not to mention her own backing track, often held down the fort during the especially jumped-up cuts.

www.straight.com

But there's something about those jumped-up, vajazzled body-stockings that still register.

www.independent.co.uk

He's a jumped-up parish councillor, but has taken on the airs and graces of an international statesman.

www.dailymail.co.uk

We spend most of our time complaining about its weather/transport system/house prices, but the minute some jumped-up outsider rubbishes our beloved city, we rush to defend it.

metro.co.uk

It is no coincidence that radio was quickly exploited by jumped-up idealists and political propagandists -- it offered one-way communication with a mass audience -- but before long there was a backlash.

www.ft.com