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Hifalutin

Definition: Hifalutin

Hifalutin

Adjective

1. Affectedly genteel.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

"Hifalutin" is a common misspelling or typo for: highfalutin, highfaluting.

 

Synonyms: Hifalutin

Synonyms: grandiose (adj), highfalutin (adj), highfaluting (adj), hoity-toity (adj), la-di-da (adj). (additional references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Hifalutin

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

hifalutin

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: Hifalutin

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-f-h-i-i-l-n-t-u"

-2 letters: antiflu, nautili, unfaith.

-3 letters: finial, flaunt, hatful, inhaul, lithia, tahini, thulia, tinful.

-4 letters: faint, faith, fault, filth, final, flint, haunt, laith, lathi, litai, nihil, uhlan, unfit, unhat, unlit, until.

-5 letters: alif, alit, anil, anti, aunt, fail, fain, faun, fiat, fila, flan, flat, flit, haft, hail, half, halt, hant, haul, haut, hila, hili, hilt, hint.

 Words containing the letters "a-f-h-i-i-l-n-t-u"
 

+2 letters: highfalutin.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Hifalutin


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 69 66 61 6C 75 74 69 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01101001 01100110 01100001 01101100 01110101 01110100 01101001 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#105 &#102 &#97 &#108 &#117 &#116 &#105 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0069 0066 0061 006C 0075 0074 0069 006E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

427572677887867580

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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