Exact Match:
- upstart
- a person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class
- an arrogant or presumptuous person
Synonyms:
- Babbitt,
- Philistine,
- Young Turk,
- adventurer,
- arriviste,
- bob up,
- boldface,
- boor,
- bounder,
- bourgeois,
- bourgeois gentilhomme,
- brazenface,
- break water,
- bright young man,
- cad,
- churl,
- chutzpanik,
- clown,
- comer,
- emigrant,
- epicier,
- fledgling,
- float up,
- fly up,
- fountain,
- gate-crasher,
- greenhorn,
- groundling,
- gush,
- guttersnipe,
- hooligan,
- hussy,
- ill-bred fellow,
- immigrant,
- intruder,
- jet,
- jump up,
- leap up,
- looby,
- lout,
- low fellow,
- malapert,
- minx,
- modern,
- modern generation,
- modern man,
- modernist,
- modernizer,
- mucker,
- mushroom,
- name-dropper,
- neologism,
- neologist,
- neology,
- neonate,
- neoteric,
- neoterism,
- neoterist,
- new arrival,
- new boy,
- new generation,
- new man,
- newcomer,
- newly-rich,
- nobody,
- nouveau riche,
- nouveau roturier,
- nouveau-riche,
- novus homo,
- outsider,
- parvenu,
- parvenue,
- peasant,
- pig in clover,
- pop up,
- pretender,
- pup,
- puppy,
- recruit,
- ribald,
- rising generation,
- rocket,
- rookie,
- roturier,
- rough,
- roughneck,
- rowdy,
- ruffian,
- saucebox,
- settler,
- shoot up,
- skyrocket,
- slob,
- smart aleck,
- smart-ass,
- smarty,
- smarty-pants,
- social climber,
- spring up,
- sprout,
- spurt,
- squatter,
- start up,
- status seeker,
- stowaway,
- stripling,
- surface,
- swaggerer,
- tenderfoot,
- tufthunter,
- upleap,
- upshoot,
- upspear,
- upspring,
- vault up,
- vulgarian,
- vulgarist,
- whippersnapper,
- wise guy,
- wise-ass,
- would-be gentleman,
- yokel