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Definition of Highfalutin
1. Adjective. Affectedly genteel.
Similar to: Pretentious
Derivative terms: Grandiosity
Definition of Highfalutin
1. Adjective. (US informal) Self-important, pompous; arrogant or egotistical; tending to show off or hold oneself in unduly high regard. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Highfalutin
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Highfalutin
Literary usage of Highfalutin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Raemaekers' Cartoons: With Accompanying Notes by Well-Known English Writers by Louis Raemaekers (1916)
"No flags, no highfalutin, no symbolical figure posed for show; just cleanliness,
determination, and good sense facing bestiality and oppression. ..."
2. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"... inflation, heroics (pi.; sarcastic), fustian (contemptuous), highfalutin or
... heroic, extravagant, high-flown (esp. of language), highfalutin or ..."
3. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"One of the specifications, by which he would seek to justify an affirmative
answer, is the persistence among us of the highfalutin' style of oratory. ..."
4. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1856)
"The 'highfalutin' Style' is next in order : and the example is a sacred one. ...
As to the character of the ' highfalutin ' style, the critic explains ..."
5. The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical, and Anecdotal by John Camden Hotten (1874)
"highfalutin', showy, affected, tinselled, affecting certain pompous or fashionable
airs, stuck up ; " come, none of yer highfalutin' games," »>., you must ..."
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