uppity

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

uppity
    adj 1: presumptuously arrogant; "had a witty but overweening
           manner"; "no idea how overweening he would be"-
           S.V.Benet; "getting a little uppity and needed to be
           slapped down"- NY Times [syn: {overweening}, {uppity}]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

43 Moby Thesaurus words for "uppity":
      arrogant, audacious, big, brash, bumptious, cold, condescending,
      contumelious, cool, disdainful, domineering, familiar, forward,
      haughty, high-faluting, high-flown, high-headed, high-nosed,
      hoity-toity, hubristic, insolent, insulting, lofty, obtrusive,
      overbearing, overpresumptuous, overweening, patronizing, presuming,
      presumptuous, procacious, proud, purse-proud, pushful, pushing,
      pushy, self-asserting, self-assertive, stuck-up, superior,
      toplofty, uppish, upstage