Meanings of hifalutin in English

That's what men want, not hifalutin' mind cures delivered at long range.

Athena seems like a hifalutin metaphor for yet another streaming service from a multinational megacorp.

Jest like her mother, full of hifalutin notions, discontented, and sot in her own idees.

You talk pretty hifalutin' fer a real workin' man.

When he takes a stand, it will be based not on hifalutin principles but on factual information.

There are those who disclaim history and whose mouth is filled with "hifalutin" talk about facing the future.

Ella, she's more hifalutin.

The way I was taught to lay out a story in my journalism classes: not fancy, not twee or all hifalutin.

They'll do some hifalutin, new-fangled way of drawing it out and make a cock up of it like they normally do.

He said at the time that he knew she'd bring him bad luck-shebeing his thirteenth-andshe did, she was that hifalutin.

Seems to me that's a little hifalutin'.

"I guess that's what they call hifalutin," said Sunbeam; "now do tell it right."

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

"Livin' so high wid all dem hifalutin' kings an' queens an' sech, an' den comin' back here an' makin' ten' he wouldn' 'spise Mammy's ash-cakes!"