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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
highfalutin
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 management science, then I am a highfalutin management scientist.
▪ Thus, when awards time arrives, the old inferiority complexes become a factor and decisions often go in vaguely highfalutin directions.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
highfalutin

highfalutin \high`fa*lu"tin\, highfaluting \high`fa*lu"ting\, n. High-flown, bombastic language. [Written also hifalutin.] [Jocular, U. S.]
--Lowell.

highfalutin

highfalutin \highfalutin\ highfaluting \highfaluting\ highfalutin' \highfalutin'\adj. Affectedly genteel; pretentious; haughty; snobbish. [Written also hifalutin.] [informal]

Syn: grandiose, hifalutin, hoity-toity, la-di-da.

Wiktionary
highfalutin

a. (context US informal English) Self-important, pompous; arrogant or egotistical; tending to show off or hold oneself in unduly high regard.

WordNet
highfalutin

adj. affectedly genteel [syn: grandiose, hifalutin, highfaluting, 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.