I used the term high-falutin' in a PM today, and suddenly wondered about it. A Search revealed that we haven't had a discussion about it, though Dr. Bill, bless him, gave the origin:
wwh
(Carpal Tunnel)
Sat Jul 6 12:39:04 2002
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Re: Surprise IV

High falutin or Hifaluten. Tall talk. (Dutch, verlooten, high-flown, stilted.)
http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=words&Number=75458

The term has only been used here 15 times, and 3 of those were an original and two copyings. There were a couple that had a g on the end of falutin', and at least one that didn't use a hyphen, but they were in essence all the same. Why don't we ever have a low-falutin' or just plain falutin'?