What is high-flown, bombastic language. [Written also hifalutin.] [Jocular, U. S.] Lowell called?
highfaluting — High-flown, bombastic language. [Written also hifalutin.] [Jocular, U. S.] Lowell. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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