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Highfalutin

Definition: Highfalutin

Highfalutin

Adjective

1. Affectedly genteel.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Date "highfalutin" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Synonyms: Highfalutin

Synonyms: grandiose (adj), hifalutin (adj), highfaluting (adj), hoity-toity (adj), la-di-da (adj). (additional references)

Synonyms within Context: Highfalutin

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Boasting	Noun: boasting; Verb: boast, vaunt, crake; pretense, pretensions; puff, puffery; flourish, fanfaronade; gasconade; blague, bluff, gas; highfalutin, highfaluting; hot air, spread-eagleism; brag, braggardism; bravado, bunkum, buncombe; jactancy; bounce; venditation, vaporing, rodomontade, bombast, fine talking, tall talk, magniloquence, teratology, heroics; Chauvinism; exaggeration.
	Adjective: boasting; Verb: magniloquent, flaming, Thrasonic, stilted, gasconading, braggart, boastful, pretentious, soi-disant; vainglorious; (conceited); highfalutin, highfaluting; spread-eagle.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Commercial Usage: Highfalutin

Domain	Title
Books	Hogwash, History, and Horse Sense: The World According to Jake: A Highfalutin Caboodle of Jake's Views on Everything This Side of the Moon (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Usage Frequency: Highfalutin

"Highfalutin" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Highfalutin" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	5	157,705

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Highfalutin

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
highfalutin	4
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Modern Translation: Highfalutin

Language		Translations for "highfalutin"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
French		ronflant, prétentieux (histrionic), affecté. (various references)

German		hochtrabend (grandiloquent, high-falutin, inflated, magniloquent, overblown, pompous, pretentious, rotund, turgid). (various references)

Pig Latin		ighfalutinhay.(various references)

Romanian		sunãtor (bombastic, highfaluting, resounding, ringing, sonorous), sforãitor (highfaluting, high-flown, snoring, snorting), pompos (emphatic, exaggerative, highfaluting, high-flown, high-sounding, important, large, magniloquent, pompous, state, stilted, swollen, theatrical, tumid), bombastic (baggy, bombastic, bombastically, declamatory, emphatic, exaggerative, flamboyant, grandiloquent, grandiose, high-blown, highfaluting, high-flown, inflated, magniloquent, mouthy, plethoric, puffy, rotund, stilted, turgid), afectat (affected, affectedly, Arty, curious, demure, demurely, euphuistic, far fetched, finical, finicking, gushing, highfaluting, high-flown, lackadaisical, La-di-da, mannered, miminy-piminy, mincing, namby-pamby, niminy-piminy, preciously, pretty, primly, recherche, scenic, self conscious, stilted, studied, swollen, theatrical). (various references)

Russian		напыщенный (bombastic, declamatory, flatulent, grandiloquent, grandiose, high-blown, highfaluting, mouth-filling, mouthy, orotund, pompous, toploty, tub-thumping, tumid). (various references)

Ukrainian		бундючний (bombastic, cavalier, chilly, cockish, flatulent, haughty, highfaluting, high-hearted, mouth-filling, overly, pompous, puffed up, scenic, scenical, snobbish, snobby, swollen), пихатий (arrogant, assuming, bloated, cavalier, cockish, conceited, foppish, haughty, highfaluting, high-flown, high-hearted, hoity toity, inflated, magniloquent, mouthy, overweening, portentous, puffed up, ritzy, self-important, side, solemn, vain). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings: Highfalutin

Misspellings
	"Highfalutin" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hifalutin. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Rhyming with "Highfalutin"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "highfalutin" (pronounced hī'fuluw"tun)
5	-l uw" t u n	gluten.
4	-uw" t u n	Newton.
3	-t u n	fatten, actin, badminton, batten, beaten, begotten, biotin, bitten, Boston, boughten, Bouton, brighten, bulletin, Burton, button, Canton, capstan, captain, carton, certain, charlatan, chieftain, clandestine, cosmopolitan, cotton, craton, curtain, Dalton, dentin, dishearten, eaten, enlighten, exoskeleton, flatten, forgotten, fountain, frighten, frostbitten, gelatin, gotten, guncotton, handwritten, hearten, heighten, intermountain, intestine, jetton, kindergarten, kitten, lighten, litten, lovastatin, Manhattan, marten, Martin, Melton, metropolitan, misbegotten, mitten, molten, mountain, mutton, nekton, overwritten, Parton, Patten, phytoplankton, piston, plankton, plantain, platen, pleasing, ponton, predestine, prolactin, puritan, rewritten, rotten, Samaritan, satin, Seton, Sexton, shorten, Singleton, skeleton, smitten, spartan, straighten, sultan, sweeten, tartan, teston, threaten, tighten, Titan, Triton, tungsten, typewritten, unbeaten, unbutton, uncertain, underwritten, unwritten, verboten, wanton, wheaten, whiten, written.
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Anagrams: Highfalutin

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-f-g-h-h-i-i-l-n-t-u"
	-2 letters: hifalutin.
	-3 letters: faithing, fanlight, faulting, hightail, inflight.
	-4 letters: antiflu, failing, fatling, fliting, fluting, gainful, hafting, hailing, halting, hauling, hilting, infight, intagli, lathing, lifting, nautili, nilghai, nilghau, tailing, unfaith.
	-5 letters: ailing, alight, fating, filing, finial, flaunt, flight, fungal, haling, hangul, hatful, hating, ingulf, inhaul, lingua, lithia, luting, naught, nilgai, nilgau, tahini, thulia, tiling, tinful.
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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency

5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Rhymes

9. Anagrams
10. Bibliography

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