All 3 Uses of
upstart
in
Emma
- A little upstart, vulgar being, with her Mr. E., and her caro sposo, and her resources, and all her airs of pert pretension and underbred finery.†
Chpt 2.13-14
- She was nobody when he married her, barely the daughter of a gentleman; but ever since her being turned into a Churchill she has out-Churchill'd them all in high and mighty claims: but in herself, I assure you, she is an upstart."†
Chpt 2.17-18
- I have quite a horror of upstarts.†
Chpt 2.17-18 *
Definition:
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(upstart) someone who recently acquired power (or acts as though they did), and disrespects others