Proud; insolent.--Halliwell. Colloquial in England and the United States.
You pretend to think everybody alike; but when it comes to the pint, you're a sight more uppish than the ra'al quality at home.--Mrs. Clavers's Western Clearings.
·adj Proud; arrogant; assuming; putting on airs of superiority. ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Testy, apt to take offence. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose