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What does uppish mean?

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Adjective
  1. (since circa 1678) Having plenty of money.
  2. (colloquial) proud; arrogant; assuming
  3. (cricket, of a shot) In which the ball is hit into the air, with the chance of being caught.
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We were not so uppish about what sort of hotel we would have, next time we went to Datchet.
But of the uppish ones there was one officer in particular I could not endure.
He played an uppish shot to a slower delivery from fast bowler James Anderson which landed in the safe hands of Cook at mid-off.
And it almost produces an immediate wicket – a Jordan slower ball does Marsh, whose uppish push flies just wide of a diving Ian Bell.
So all pitied the poor Vicar, despised his uppish, false-hearted wife, and most hated the young squire.
Fourth ball he has Sharma playing an uppish cut, a bit of a top edge there, and backward point snares it comfortably.

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