highfalutin

Etymology
Possible an alteration of. Another speculation connects the term with. First appears c. 1839 in the .

Adjective

 * 1)  Self-important, pompous; arrogant or egotistical.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: pöyhkeilevä
 * German:, , , , hochgestochen
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: ,
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:, ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: ,

Noun

 * 1)  Pompous speech or writing.