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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/f46bd91b-c877-40f7-939c-54467b39fc5d/617DEF3B-6D84-4B97-9F41-01C107A5C199/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.alphadictionary.com/goodword/word/high-falutin%27" href="http://www.alphadictionary.com/goodword/word/high-falutin%27" style="font-size: 11px;">www.alphadictionary.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alphadictionary.com/goodword/word/high-falutin%27"><SPAN id="goodword_word">• high-falutin' •</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alphadictionary.com/goodword/word/high-falutin%27"><P class="pronunciation">
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<STRONG>Pronunciation:</STRONG> 
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	hai-fê-<B>lut</B>-ên
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</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alphadictionary.com/goodword/word/high-falutin%27"><P class="pos"><STRONG>Part of Speech:</STRONG> Adjective</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alphadictionary.com/goodword/word/high-falutin%27"><P class="meaning"><STRONG>Meaning:</STRONG> (Regional slang) <B>1.</B> Highly pompous, bombastic (speech).  <B>2.</B> Showing off, ostentatious, pretending to be above one's station in life, putting on airs.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alphadictionary.com/goodword/word/high-falutin%27"><P class="notes"><STRONG>Notes:</STRONG> The amazing thing about <I>high-falutin'</I> is that is not a high-faluting word itself for it is always pronounced with a regional twang—<I>high-falutin'</I>.  However, it has survived long enough to be treated as a legitimate word that may be pronounced standardly, <I>high-faluting</I>, if it makes you feel better.  It may be used as an adverb with or without any doctoring:  "Benny can talk as high-falutin' as any of them.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/617DEF3B-6D84-4B97-9F41-01C107A5C199/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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