purse-proud

[ purs-proud ]

/ ˈpɜrsˌpraʊd /

proud of one's wealth, especially in an arrogant or showy manner.

Origin of purse-proud

First recorded in 1675–85

Though, purse-proud with your riches, you strut along, yet fortune does not alter your birth.

The Works of Horace |Horace
Sometimes it was a snobbish, purse-proud class, as in the case of the present juniors.

Molly Brown's Sophomore Days |Nell Speed
One trapper named Jones was so successful at this business of trapping seals with the net that he became "purse-proud."

Grenfell: Knight-Errant of the North |Fullerton Waldo
And this does not look very well in one who, when he was poor, was particularly bitter on "a purse-proud aristocracy."

Duffels |Edward Eggleston

Let us hope, in all charity, that purse-proud bounder and the barmaid married, and lived happily ever after.

The Old Inns of Old England, Volume II (of 2) |Charles G. Harper