الواصلة
high·fa·lu·tinالتركية النطق
hayfılutînالمترادفات
hoity-toity,
arrogant,
boastful,
conceited,
flaunting,
grandiose,
high and mighty,
important,
lofty,
ostentatious,
overbearing,
presumptuous,
pretentious,
puffed up,
puffyالنطق
/ˌhīfəˈlo͞otən/ /ˌhaɪfəˈluːtɪn/
علم أصول الكلمات
() In his book, The Adventure of English, Melvyn Bragg records that in a nascent America, when the well-to-do travelled by steamboat, said passengers were referred to as highfalutin due to the high fluted funnels on the boats. Compare riffraff.