Upstart

Noun

 * 1) someone who has gained sudden wealth, power or influence, but has either not gained social acceptance or has become arrogant or presumptuous

Synonyms

 * arriviste
 * nouveau riche
 * parvenu

Adjective
upstart


 * 1) self-important and presumptuous

Verb

 * 1) to rise suddenly, to spring

Thesaurus
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

Noun

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 暴發戶, 暴发户
 * Czech: povýšenec
 * Dutch: nieuwkomeling
 * Finnish: nousukas, uusrikas
 * French: ,
 * German: Emporkömmling,,  Neureicher
 * Greek:


 * Icelandic:
 * Japanese: 成り金, 成り上がり者, 出来星
 * Latin:
 * Russian:, нувориш, парвеню
 * Spanish: advenedizo, advenediza, unscrupulous upstart arribista

Adjective

 * Finnish:
 * Italian: ,


 * Spanish:, unscrupulous upstart

Anagrams

 * start up, start-up, startup