hifalutin

Historical Examples of hifalutin

• He has no useless flourish in his manner, and none of the 'hifalutin' in his style.

  Music and Some Highly Musical People

  James M. Trotter

• Nor, Im jes er plain ole biznes man,—I ain got no fightin sense like dese rip snortin, hifalutin solger boys.

  Bypaths in Dixie

  Sarah Johnson Cocke

• He said at the time that he knew she'd bring him bad luck—she being his thirteenth—and she did, she was that hifalutin.

  The Lions of the Lord

  Harry Leon Wilson

• "That's her hifalutin way of putting on the dog, nurse," Doctor Parris grinned wickedly.

  Old Mr. Wiley

  Fanny Greye La Spina

• I fed and bedded your hifalutin' chickens though I'm sort of uneasy around that one high-steppin' rooster.

  The Black Fawn

  James Arthur Kjelgaard