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highfalutin Definition


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highfalutin
highfaluting
adj
    1. informal
      Ostentatious; pompous or affected.
      Thesaurus: affected, pompous, grandiose, high-flown, magniloquent, pretentious, supercilious; bombastic, florid.
Etymology: 19c: high + variation of fluting, present participle of flute.



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