2. (American).—A well-dressed man; a splawger (q.v.).—Matsell.
Higher-malthusianism, subs. phr. (colloquial).—Sodomy.
Highfalute, verb. (American).—To use fine words. Also to yarn (q.v.). See Highfaluting. Fr., faire l’étroite.
Highfaluting, 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 Gaz., 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. A driveller of tipsy, high-flown, and high-falutin’ nonsense.
1884. Echo, 17 Mar., 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.’
High-feather. In high feather, adv. phr. (colloquial).—In luck; on good terms with oneself and the world.