| Domain | Definition | ||
| Literature | 1: Falutin (High). Oratorical bombast; affected pomposity; "Ercles vein." (See Hifaluten.) 2: None of your high falutin airs with me. None of your swell ways with me. (Dutch, verlooten. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
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Specialty Expressions: FALUTIN
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| High Falutin | Literature | 1: "The genius of hifaluten, as the Americans call it... has received many mortal wounds lately from the hands of satirists.... A quizzical Jenkins lately described the dress of a New York belle by stating that `she wore an exquisite hyphaluten on her head, while her train was composed of transparent fol-de-rol, and her petticoat of crambambuli flounced with Brussels three-ply of A No. 1." - Hingston: Introduction to Josh Billings. 2: Hifaluten. Tall talk. (Dutch, verlooten, high-flown, stilted.) 3: Or ~~~Hifaluten. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
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