highfalutin \highfalutin\ highfaluting \highfaluting\
highfalutin' \highfalutin'\adj.
Affectedly genteel; pretentious; haughty; snobbish. [Written
also hifalutin.] [informal]
Syn: grandiose, hifalutin, hoity-toity, la-di-da.
[WordNet 1.5] highfalutin
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
highfalutin \high`fa*lu"tin\, highfaluting \high`fa*lu"ting\, n.
[Perh. a corruption of highflighting.]
High-flown, bombastic language. [Written also hifalutin.]
[Jocular, U. S.] --Lowell.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
highfaluting
adj : affectedly genteel [syn: grandiose, hifalutin, highfalutin,
hoity-toity, la-di-da]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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