Hypertext Webster Gateway: "highfaluting"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Highfaluting \High`fa*lu"ting\, n. [Perh. a corruption of
highflighting.]
High-flown, bombastic language. [Written also {hifalutin}.]
[Jocular, U. S.] --Lowell.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
highfaluting
adj : affectedly genteel [syn: {grandiose}, {hifalutin}, {highfalutin},
{hoity-toity}, {la-di-da}]
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