subs. (formerly American: now general).—Bombast; rant.
1865. Orchestra. We should not think of using HIGH-FALUTIN on ordinary serious occasions, and that we never shall use it in future, unless we happen to speak of the Porcupine critic.
1886. Pall Mall Gazette, 3 May, 6, 2. A glib master of frothy fustian, of flatulent HIGH-FALUTIN’, and of oratorical bombast.
Adj. (general).—Bombastic; fustian; thrasonical.
1870. FRISWELL, Modern Men of Letters, ‘G. A. Sala.’ A driveller of tipsy, high-flown, and HIGH-FALUTIN’ nonsense.
1884. Echo, 17 March, p. 1, c. 4. It is the boast of HIGH-FALUTIN’ Americans that theirs is a country ‘where every man can do as he darn pleases.’
