highfalutin

Adjective Satellite

affectedly genteel

Adj

Self-important, pompous; arrogant or egotistical.

Noun

Pompous speech or writing.

Examples

His speech was very highfalutin.
It's only a matter of time before some highfalutin developer builds a huge hotel and ruins the scenery.
That one Cajun that moved to Austin is too highfalutin to come back to Livingston Parish. He's over there with that mean bread lady!

Origin / Etymology

Possible an alteration of high-fluting. Another speculation connects the term with high-flighting/-flying. First appears c. 1839 in the Spirit of the Times.

Synonyms

grandiose, hifalutin, highfaluting, hoity-toity, la-di-da, bombast, pretentious

Scrabble Score: 21

highfalutin: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
highfalutin: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
highfalutin: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 23

highfalutin: valid Words With Friends Word