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Hifalutin   Listen
noun
Hifalutin  n.  See Highfaluting.


highfaluting, highfalutin  n.  (Written also hifalutin)  High-flown, bombastic language. (Jocular, U. S.)


adjective
highfalutin', highfaluting, highfalutin  adj.  (Written also hifalutin)  Affectedly genteel; pretentious; haughty; snobbish. (informal)
Synonyms: grandiose, hifalutin, hoity-toity, la-di-da.





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"Hifalutin" Quotes from Famous Books



... then. A newspaper is a business proposition. Never forget that. All these hifalutin' notions about its being a palladium and the voice of the people and the guardian of public interests are good enough to talk about on the editorial page. Gives a paper a following, that kind of guff does. But the ...
— The Clarion • Samuel Hopkins Adams


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