highfaluting

3 definitions found

highfaluting - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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

  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]

highfaluting - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  highfaluting
      adj 1: affectedly genteel [syn: grandiose, hifalutin,
             highfalutin, highfaluting, hoity-toity, la-di-da]