fancy-pants
adjective
Slang. fancy or snobbish; foppish; dandified.
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DO YOU KNOW THIS VOCABULARY FROM "THE HANDMAID'S TALE"?
"The Handmaid's Tale" was required reading for many of us in school. Everyone else has probably watched the very popular and addictive TV show. Do you remember this vocabulary from the book, and do you know what these terms mean?
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decorum
Origin of fancy-pants
First recorded in 1930–35
Words nearby fancy-pants
fancy fern, fancy goods, fancy man, fancy woman, fancy-free, fancy-pants, fancywork, fandangle, fandango, fandom, fane
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Example sentences from the Web for fancy-pants
The Plaza Hotel cooked a fancy-pants latke with red wine braised oxtail, horseradish sunchoke cream, and crispy kale.
I assumed there was a fancy-pants magazine photo shoot in progress and peeked to see who was posing.