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Upstart vs Upstare - What's the difference?

upstart | upstare |

As verbs the difference between upstart and upstare

is that upstart is to rise suddenly, to spring while upstare is to stare or stand erect or on end; be erect or conspicuous; bristle.

As a noun upstart

is one who has suddenly gained wealth, power, or other prominence, but either has not received social acceptance or has become arrogant or presumptuous.

As an adjective upstart

is self-important and presumptuous.

upstart

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who has suddenly gained wealth, power, or other prominence, but either has not received social acceptance or has become arrogant or presumptuous.
    • (Francis Bacon)
  • * {{quote-book, year=2006, author=
    • , title=Internal Combustion , chapter=1 citation , passage=But electric vehicles and the batteries that made them run became ensnared in corporate scandals, fraud, and monopolistic corruption that shook the confidence of the nation and inspired automotive upstarts .}}
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=June 29 , author=Kevin Mitchell , title=Roger Federer back from Wimbledon 2012 brink to beat Julien Benneteau , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=Where the Czech upstart Rosol, ranked 100 in the world, all but blew Nadal's head off with his blunderbuss in a fifth set of unrivalled intensity on Thursday night, Benneteau, a more artful citizen, used a rapier to hurt his vaunted foe before falling just short of a kill. In the end, it was he who staggered from the scene of the fight. }}
  • The meadow saffron.

    • Synonyms

    * arriviste * nouveau riche * parvenu

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • self-important and presumptuous

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • to rise suddenly, to spring
    • (Spenser)
    (Tennyson)

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    upstare

    English

    Verb

    (upstar)
  • To stare or stand erect or on end; be erect or conspicuous; bristle.
  • *1896 , Edward Dowden, The life of Percy Bysshe Shelley :
    • In the street or road he reluctantly wore a hat, but in fields or gardens his little round head had no other covering than his long, wild, ragged locks." These wild locks upstared more wildly when Shelley, having dipped his head, [...]
  • *1903 , Charles James Longman, Longman's magazine: Volume 42 :
    • Th' Blofielders wor a right upstaren' lot o' chaps, and we had several owd scores ter set off agin them, so all Ranner woted for savage camp and Blofield didn't gainsay us.
  • *1927 , Collected poems of Alexander G. Steven
    • I have no people living ; none, Thank God ! will mourn me there, / Dreaming in misery of one Whose clouded eyes upstare
  • *1999 , Thomas W. Krise, Caribbeana :
    • [...] aghast, upstared my Hair, I speechless stood!