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Highfaluting. World English Historical Dictionary

Highfaluting. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Bibliographic Record Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022. Highfaluting subs. (formerly American: now general).—Bombast; rant.

1   1865.  Orchestra. We should not think of using HIGH-FALUTIN on ordinary serious occasions, and that we never shall use it in future, unless we happen to speak of the Porcupine critic.

2   1886.  Pall Mall Gazette, 3 May, 6, 2. A glib master of frothy fustian, of flatulent HIGH-FALUTIN’, and of oratorical bombast.

3   Adj. (general).—Bombastic; fustian; thrasonical.

4   1870.  FRISWELL, Modern Men of Letters, ‘G. A. Sala.’ A driveller of tipsy, high-flown, and HIGH-FALUTIN’ nonsense.

5   1884.  Echo, 17 March, p. 1, c. 4. It is the boast of HIGH-FALUTIN’ Americans that theirs is a country ‘where every man can do as he darn pleases.’

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