Pretentiously self-important; arrogantly presumptuous, especially describing a person of modest origin who behaves as if they have a higher rank or greater importance.
Having achieved an undeserved or exaggerated rise in status or importance; smugly inflated in self-regard.
Examples:
EN: You're only a jumped-up, checked-off hospital-turnout incurable of an old working man.
ES: Sólo es usted un infeliz, o un viejo trabajador en paro.
EN: You're only a jumped-up, checked-off hospital-turnout incurable of an old working man.
ES: Sólo es usted un infeliz, o un viejo trabajador en paro.
EN: Not from you, you jumped-up cock-a-hooping -
ES: - No de ti, pedante...
EN: They're jumped-up servants who think they're better than the rest of us
ES: - Yokihi! - Da igual. Se aprovecha del emperador.
EN: It's for big merchants, not jumped-up clerks like you
ES: Es para grandes comerciantes, no para empleados pretenciosos.
EN: You're gonna attend that meeting tonight or, by jumped-up Harry, you're gonna be guest of honor at a necktie party!
ES: Tiene que asistir a la reunión de esta noche ¡o les pondremos una soga por corbata!
EN: I owe that jumped-up plowboy a seeing-to.
ES: Debo vengarme de ese campesino presumido.
EN: You're a nobody, a jumped-up little money-grabber for all your title.
ES: Tú eres un don nadie, un presuntuoso y pequeño especulador, por todo título.
EN: He's just a jumped-up guard.
ES: Sólo es un guardián presuntuoso.
EN: Haven't you forgotten the jumped-up pantry boy who doesn't know his place?
ES: ¿Se olvida del menestral advenedizo que no sabe cuál es su sitio?
EN: Yes. At least it'll be me in charge and not all those failed MPs and jumped-up DJs.
ES: Si, así no me la quitaran los parlamentarios fracasados y disc-jockeys creídos.
EN: This jumped-up, firework display of a toy advert.
ES: Es una presuntuosa demostración para vender un juguete.
EN: We had two extra sessions to try that jumped-up nigger Robeson for contempt.
ES: Tuvimos que juzgar dos sesiones extras a ese desagradable Robeson, por desacato.
EN: Holy jumped-up, bald-headed, Jesus palomino!
ES: ¡No joda chamos!
EN: You stupid, jumped-up filofax.
ES: - Estúpida cotorra semiautomática.
EN: Ward's just a jumped-up little ponce from Torquay.