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I just read an article that refered to "uppity" as a "racially-tinged term".....does this word have that definition?

Posted by Walt_Disney (aka Walt_Disney) Sep 4 '08, 13:50

I have NEVER heard it refered to as such.

Stupid Dailykos article sent by my co-worker.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/4/16124/98880/69/586742 (www.dailykos.com)

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not definition but the connotation definitely is "tinged" to say the least. I've rarely heard the word since the 70s because of that. -- nm - zork Sep 4, 14:15
I don't think of it as having a racial tinge, but that's because I learned the word from this book -- (link) - Roger More Sep 4, 13:59
I think it's racially tinged, yes, even though I recently used it in a non-racial way myself. -- nm - mara Sep 4, 13:54 5
- "Oh, look at you, uppity b!tch!" -- nm - mara SI Sep 4, 13:56 2
  - See...this is more of how I would use the term but more in a high maintenance or class sort of way. Never heard of it in a racial way. -- nm - Walt_Disney Sep 4, 14:07 1
    - It's racial in the way (sort of) that the word "lynch" is racial. It's not really part of the definition, it's just that there's a history. -- nm - mara Sep 4, 14:19
- ("freaking uppity scientologists...") -- nm - mara si Sep 4, 13:56 1
  - Heh, I knew this was going to happen. It was while I was trying to figure out if I was being told I couldn't work on my own time, and I said if - mara Sep 4, 13:59
Colloquially. When blacks started becoming free and fighting Jim Crow, that word became a racial slur -- nm - con_carne Sep 4, 13:53
"Etymology: Fanciful extension of up. First used in the slave states of USA in mid 1800s. " -- (link) - JaxSean Sep 4, 13:52
because wen it was in more common usage, it was usually followed by the n-word. - znufrii Sep 4, 13:52 1
- me please!!! -- nm - nubby Sep 4, 13:53
Yeah, in the South at least. - nubby Sep 4, 13:51 1
- I'm sure there's been a few Spike Lee movies that put it into the pop culture. I hear it from time to time -- nm - con_carne Sep 4, 13:55
Uhm ... class-aspersion-tinged, maybe -- nm - Beryllium Sep 4, 13:51
Only when Reagen says it. -- nm - Max Sep 4, 13:51

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I just read an article that refered to "uppity" as a "racially-tinged term".....does this word have that definition?

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