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high-falluting 

When someone acts like the others around are inferiors. Usually they don't mind their own business and always take people for granted.
"And if you wanna love me baby, oh I'm your man
And all those high-falluting society people
I don't care if they don't undertand."

By Lynyrd Skynyrd - On The Hunt
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high-falluting 

acting in an inappropriately uppish, snobby manner; also high-fallutin'
Her high-falluting airs made me want puke.
high-falluting by Tracy January 22, 2004

high-falluting 

Uppity, putting on airs, snobbish in a hillbilly or hick fashion.
Should I cut back on the high-falluting vocabulary?
high-falluting by Anonymous October 26, 2003

high falutin

groundless assumption of a higher status or affectation than actually contained.
Jane's high falutin airs didn't impress her co workers at the factory. They knew that her date took her to the local drive in for fast food.

high falutin by Michelle Llauger April 28, 2006

high-falutin'

1. Highly pompous, bombastic (speech).

2. Showing off, ostentatious, pretending to be above one's station in life, putting on airs.
1. Nan Tucket thinks that using high-falutin' words will convince people that she is a high-class lady.

2. Cindy Mae Lovett hasn't talked to any of her old friends since she started waitressing in that high-falutin' restaurant on Nob Hill.
high-falutin' by jennifer125 January 20, 2010

High-Fluting Economist 

1. An economist or talking head who sings the praises of the wealthy corporations while glossing over the miserable state of the working class. This would generally include the majority of all economists since only the wealthy corporations can afford to hire official excuse-makers.

2. Roughly, anyone who tells you to "whistle while you work".

3. One who plays the skin flute for his corporate daddies in exchange for Ass Tokens.

The word 'highfallutin' is based on a midwestern slang pronunciation of high + fluting or flutin'. The adjective is meant to humorously contrast the fancy and ghey sounds of a flautist (flute player) with the seriousness of everything else in the real world.
That high-fluting economist thinks he's really something special in his fancy suit and gold watch. He's just putting lipstick on a pig.

My boss has been listening to that high-fluting economist on Fox News and now he's got the Ayn Rand Effect so I could get fired just for showing up today.

High falutin

Someone who is desperate to be special and above everyone, and thinks everyone admires them. They do thinks so people think they’re special, but they usually make an ass out of themselves trying to impress people.
James drives nice cars that he put on his moms credit card, and he removes the muffler to sound cool but really just makes an ass out of himself. No one is impressed by him, he is high falutin.
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