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Falutin (High)

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Oratorical bombast; affected pomposity; “Ercles vein.” (See Hifaluten.)

None of your high falutin airs with me. None of your swell ways with me. (Dutch, verlooten.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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