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Answer for the clue "Fancy ", 11 letters:
highfalutin
Word definitions for highfalutin in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ I hate it when people use highfalutin ' words when regular ones will do. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Despite all of the highfalutin gadgets, intelligence for the most part was extremely poor. ▪ If you call that highfalutin ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (context US informal English) Self-important, pompous; arrogant or egotistical; tending to show off or hold oneself in unduly high regard.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. affectedly genteel [syn: grandiose , hifalutin , highfaluting , hoity-toity , la-di-da ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
highfalutin \highfalutin\ highfaluting \highfaluting\ highfalutin' \highfalutin'\adj. Affectedly genteel; pretentious; haughty; snobbish. [Written also hifalutin .] [informal] Syn: grandiose, hifalutin, hoity-toity, la-di-da.
Usage examples of highfalutin.
Heterochromia ifidis was the highfalutin term an ophthalmologist gave her when she was ten years old, and schoolmates had taunted her about possessing an evil eye.
Julien's highfalutin chef," said Albert Giordino without turning from the stove.
The Martians are glad to have you, they cherish you, because by doing Shakespeare or any other of them highfalutin Greeks, you're telling your average Martian rube—and there's nothing rubier than a Martian rube—that he's just as good as a Lunarian.