hifalutin 

  1. 形容詞
炫耀的
浮誇的, 自負的
誇大的, 誇張的
裝模作樣的

    同義字詞
florid,flowery,grandiloquent,high-flown,high-sounding,ornate,purple,rhetorical,rhetoric
arrogant,bumptious,cavalier,chesty,haughty,high-and-mighty,high-handed,high-hat,huffish,huffy,imperious,important,lofty,lordly,masterful,overweening,peremptory,pompous,presuming,presumptuous,pretentious,self-asserting,self-assertive,sniffy,supercilious,superior,uppish,uppity
disdainful,haughty,lofty,lordly,prideful,proud,superior
affected,grandiose,high-minded,la-di-da,ostentatious,pompous,pretentious,snippy

  2. 名詞
不可數名詞:
大話
誇張的話

    
                        
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                                "I've never been into hifalutin ' things."                            
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                                It is never hifalutin , which in the case of Anglicanism, is a caricaturable curse.                            
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                                The book is crammed with mad , flowery metaphors and hifalutin creative-writing experiments.                            
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                                Dunlap was by no means useless; for he invented hifalutin names for the camps, ... – Mark Twain • Archibald Henderson                            
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                                I don't think my language is all that hifalutin or anything, but I have been accused of being intentionally obtuse sometimes.                            
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