fancy-pants
adjective
Slang. fancy or snobbish; foppish; dandified.
Origin of fancy-pants
1First recorded in 1930–35
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How to use fancy-pants in a sentence
The Plaza Hotel cooked a fancy-pants latke with red wine braised oxtail, horseradish sunchoke cream, and crispy kale.
This anti-fancy-pants persona will likely serve Cotton well with Arkansas voters.
Tom Cotton’s Run for Senate in Arkansas Makes Him the New Neocon Darling | Michelle Cottle | August 9, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTFor the sister of the future Queen of England has landed a fancy pants new job as a Vanity Fair contributing editor.
Pippa Middleton, Vanity Fair's New Contributing Editor, On Her and Kate's Wimbledon Obsession | Tom Sykes | June 5, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTI assumed there was a fancy-pants magazine photo shoot in progress and peeked to see who was posing.
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