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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Falutin (High). 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. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: FALUTIN |
| Specialty definitions using "FALUTIN": High Falutin. (references) |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | In political practice, therefore, they join in all coercive measures against the working class; and in ordinary life, despite their high falutin phrases, they stoop to pick up the golden apples dropped from the tree of industry, and to barter truth, love, and honour for traffic in wool, beetroot-sugar, and potato spirits. (reference) |
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| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "FALUTIN": hi-falutin, high-falutin. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
falutin high | 2 |
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Derivations | |
Words ending with "FALUTIN": hifalutin, highfalutin. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: antiflu. | |
| Words within the letters "a-f-i-l-n-t-u" | |
-1 letter: flaunt, tinful. | |
-2 letters: faint, fault, final, flint, unfit, unlit, until. | |
-3 letters: alif, alit, anil, anti, aunt, fail, fain, faun, fiat, fila, flan, flat, flit, lain, lati, lift, lint, litu, luna, lunt, naif, nail, tail, tain, tali, tufa, tuna, ulan, ulna, unai, unit. | |
-4 letters: aft, ail, ain, ait, alt, ani, ant, fan, fat, fil, fin. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-f-i-l-n-t-u" | |
+1 letter: faulting, trainful. | |
+2 letters: flauntier, flaunting, fulminant, fulminate, hifalutin, plaintful, sulfating, trainfuls, ultrafine. | |
+3 letters: antifungal, defaulting, faultiness, flauntiest, fluorinate, fulminated, fulminates, functional, infibulate, insufflate, latifundia, latifundio, outfabling, sufflating, unfaithful, unifoliate, uninflated. | |
+4 letters: antifouling, antifungals, centrifugal, conflictual, fatiguingly, faultfinder, filamentous, flauntingly, fluctuating, fluctuation, fluorinated, fluorinates, formulating, formulation, fulgurating, fulguration, fulminating, fulmination, funambulist, highfalutin, ineffectual, infibulated, infibulates, influential, insufflated, insufflates, insufflator, latifundios, latifundium, malfunction, outflanking, painfullest, sulfonating, sulfonation, trifluralin, unbeautiful, unfaltering. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 41 4C 55 54 49 4E |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. .- .-.. ..- - .. -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01000001 01001100 01010101 01010100 01001001 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F A L U T I N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0041 004C 0055 0054 0049 004E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)40354655544348 |
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