Meanings (ES + gloss)
advenedizo • arribista
Self-important and presumptuous.
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Meanings (ES + gloss)
advenediza • advenedizo • arribista • nuevo rico
One who has suddenly gained wealth, power, or other prominence, but either has not received social acceptance or has become arrogant or presumptuous.
[S]he has no fair pretence of family or blood. 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-…
upstarts […]they call in reproach mushrooms
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