0 behaving as if you are very important in your job or position, especially because you used to be in a much lower position:
I am only following the example of what can only be classed as the "modern jumped-up peerage".
After that, of course, we had the secondary modern schools, which were nothing more than jumped-up elementary schools.
The first marquesses (which are sort of jumped-up earls, as indeed are dukes) were created in 1597 and the first viscount in 1606.
How can a lot of jumped-up boundary commissioners abolish with one stroke of the pen 400 years of history?
We are not helped by the impertinent remarks from jumped-up pups of the kind that we had a few minutes ago.
