parvenu vs upstart

parvenu

noun
  • A person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class, especially through acquisition of wealth, privileges, or political authority but has not gained social acceptance by those within that new class. 

adj
  • Being a parvenu; also, like, having the characteristics of, or associated with a parvenu. 

upstart

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

  • The meadow saffron. 

adj
  • Acting like a parvenu. 

  • self-important and presumptuous. 

verb
  • to rise suddenly, to spring 

How often have the words parvenu and upstart occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )