Highfaluting

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  highfaluting
       adj : affectedly genteel [syn: {grandiose}, {hifalutin}, {highfalutin},
              {hoity-toity}, {la-di-da}]