noovo

noovo
n, adj
British
(a person who is) nouveau riche.
A dis-missive term employed by upper-class and public-school speakers and pseudo-intellectuals. Etonian school-boys applied the term to Harrovians in the late 1980s.

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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