jumped-up

1. 1.

   (British informal) upstart

   Similarpretentious

   colloquialism · United Kingdom

Questions about jumped-up

What does jumped-up mean?

jumped-up means "(British informal) upstart".

How many syllables are in jumped-up?

jumped-up has 3 syllables: jum-pe-d-up. The stress falls on "jum".

Is jumped-up a common word?

jumped-up is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.