hifalutin

or hi·fa·lu·tin'

[ hahy-fuh-loot-n ]
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adjective
  1. variants of highfalutin.

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How to use hifalutin in a sentence

  • Perez here, he's got such hifalutin' notions, that nothin' less than a circus bill 'll do him.

    Cap'n Eri | Joseph Crosby Lincoln
  • No, not fer a considerbul spell lessen we has one grand, hifalutin' tornader.

    Peggy Stewart at School | Gabrielle E. Jackson
  • The stuffed buckram of Johnsonese had been succeeded by the mincing hifalutin of Mrs. Anne Radcliffe and her like.

    Washington Irving | Henry W. Boynton
  • I fed and bedded your hifalutin' chickens though I'm sort of uneasy around that one high-steppin' rooster.

    The Black Fawn | James Arthur Kjelgaard
  • Mather, in his "Magnalia," indulges in a strain of eulogy toward this gentleman that we should now call hifalutin.

British Dictionary definitions for hifalutin

hifalutin

/ (ˌhaɪfəˈluːtɪn) /


adjective
  1. a variant spelling of highfalutin

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