Brewer's: Stuck-up People

Pretentious people, parvenu, nobodies who assume to be somebodies. The allusion is to birds, as the peacock, which sticks up its train to add to its “importance” and “awe down” antagonists.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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