high-flownadj.

Brit.

/ˌhʌɪˈfləʊn/, U.S.

/ˈhaɪˈˌfloʊn/

Forms: see high adv. and flown adj.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: high adv., flown adj.¹

Etymology: < high adv. + flown adj.¹With sense 4 compare high adj. 13.

1. That flies or has flown at or to a great height.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > progressive motion > moving with current of air or water > motion in the air > [adjective] > flying (as) with wings > high

high-flying1549

towering1597

high-flown?1609

altivolant1656

high-riding1766

?1609 G. Chapman tr. Homer Twelue Bks. Iliads xii. 212 A high flowne eagle sorde on their troopes left hand.

1686 N. Cox Gentleman's Recreation (ed. 3) ii. 5 Canceleer, is when a high-flown Hawk in her stooping turneth two or three times upon the wing, to recover her self before she seizeth.

1868 W. Barnes Poems of Rural Life in Common Eng. 171 Tall chimneys up with high-flown larks.

1919 L. R. Freeman To Kiel in ‘Hercules’ i. 13 It was the day of the surrender, and the Cardiff, with her high-flown kite balloon in tow, was leading the line of German battle-cruisers out of the eastern mist.

2013 Orange County (Calif.) Reg. (Nexis) 2 Mar. Some of the water flowing from Orange County taps might have arrived courtesy of the Sahara Desert, a new study of high-flown atmospheric dust reveals.

2. Exceedingly great or intense; brought to a high pitch, elevated; elated. Formerly also: †intoxicated, drunk; cf. high adj. 19a (obsolete).

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > drunk

fordrunkenc897

drunkena1050

cup-shottenc1330

drunka1400

inebriate1497

overseenc1500

liquor1509

fou1535

nase?1536

full1554

intoxicate1554

tippled1564

intoxicated1576

pepst1577

overflown1579

whip-cat1582

pottical1586

cup-shota1593

fox-drunk1592

lion-drunk1592

nappy1592

sack-sopped1593

in drink1598

disguiseda1600

drink-drowned1600

daggeda1605

pot-shotten1604

tap-shackled1604

high1607

bumpsy1611

foxed1611

in one's cups1611

liquored1611

love-pot1611

pot-sick1611

whift1611

owl-eyed1613

fapa1616

hota1616

inebriated1615

reeling ripea1616

in one's (or the) pots1618

scratched1622

high-flown?1624

pot-shot1627

temulentive1628

ebrious1629

temulent1629

jug-bitten1630

pot-shaken1630

toxed1635

bene-bowsiea1637

swilled1637

paid1638

soaken1651

temulentious1652

flagonal1653

fuddled1656

cut1673

nazzy1673

concerned1678

whittled1694

suckey1699

well-oiled1701

tippeda1708

tow-row1709

wet1709

swash1711

strut1718

cocked1737

cockeyed1737

jagged1737

moon-eyed1737

rocky1737

soaked1737

soft1737

stewed1737

stiff1737

muckibus1756

groggy1770

muzzeda1788

muzzya1795

slewed1801

lumpy1810

lushy1811

pissed1812

blue1813

lush1819

malty1819

sprung1821

three sheets in the wind1821

obfuscated1822

moppy1823

ripe1823

mixed1825

queer1826

rosined1828

shot in the neck1830

tight1830

rummy1834

inebrious1837

mizzled1840

obflisticated1840

grogged1842

pickled1842

swizzled1843

hit under the wing1844

obfusticatedc1844

ebriate1847

pixilated1848

boozed1850

ploughed1853

squiffy?1855

buffy1858

elephant trunk1859

scammered1859

gassed1863

fly-blown1864

rotten1864

shot1864

ebriose1871

shicker1872

parlatic1877

miraculous1879

under the influence1879

ginned1881

shickered1883

boiled1886

mosy1887

to be loaded for bear(s)1888

squiffeda1890

loaded1890

oversparred1890

sozzled1892

tanked1893

orey-eyed1895

up the (also a) pole1897

woozy1897

toxic1899

polluted1900

lit-up1902

on (also upon) one's ear1903

pie-eyed1903

pifflicated1905

piped1906

spiflicated1906

jingled1908

skimished1908

tin hat1909

canned1910

pipped1911

lit1912

peloothered1914

molo1916

shick1916

zigzag1916

blotto1917

oiled-up1918

stung1919

stunned1919

bottled1922

potted1922

rotto1922

puggled1923

puggle1925

fried1926

crocked1927

fluthered1927

lubricated1927

whiffled1927

liquefied1928

steamed1929

mirackc1930

overshot1931

swacked1932

looped1934

stocious1937

whistled1938

sauced1939

mashed1942

plonked1943

stone1945

juiced1946

buzzed1952

jazzed1955

schnockered1955

honkers1957

skunked1958

bombed1959

zonked1959

bevvied1960

mokus1960

snockered1961

plotzed1962

over the limit1966

the worse for wear1966

wasted1968

wired1970

zoned1971

blasted1972

Brahms and Liszt?1972

funked up1976

trousered1977

motherless1980

tired and emotional1981

ratted1982

rat-arsed1984

wazzed1990

mullered1993

twatted1993

bollocksed1994

lashed1996

the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adjective] > carrying things to a high pitch

high-flown?1624

?1624 G. Chapman tr. Hymn to Hermes in tr. Crowne Homers Wks. 55 Hermes sung..All her high-flowne fame Of being Ioues Mistresse.

1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 148 As yet oppression was not so high flown.

a1656 J. Ussher Ann. World (1658) vi. 112 The king, being somewhat high flowen with drink.

1702 R. Steele Funeral ii. 35 We..have nothing at all, of all this High-Flown-Fury!

1792 D. Lloyd Voy. Life iv. 73 Do not launch Life's bay untutor'd..Like some high-flown intoxicated brain Afloat on reeds.

1842 C. Brontë Let. in E. C. Gaskell Life C. Brontë (1857) I. xi. 257 In a high-flown humour, he forbade me to use either dictionary or grammar.

1929 D. H. Lawrence Pornogr. & Obscenity 27 The most high-flown sex-emancipated young people.

1991 V. Kast Joy, Inspiration, & Hope xi. 113 When ecstasy fails to find rootedness in a structure, we become high-flown, as in the ‘high’ produced by drugs.

3. Of language, style, etc.: using elevated or formal expressions; extravagant, hyperbolical; bombastic, grandiose.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > exaggeration, hyperbole > [adjective] > of language

windya1382

wide1574

fustian1592

high-flown1632

tall1670

screamy1882

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [adjective] > inflated or bombastic

fleshyc1369

windya1382

unmeasureda1425

puffing1566

embossed1578

puffed1587

bombasted1589

fustian1592

puffya1594

full-mouthed1594

orificial1594

gouty1595

swelling1597

mouth-filling1598

taffeta1598

bombast1601

tiptoe-strouting1602

turgidous1602

swollen1605

dropsieda1616

exsufflicatea1616

turgent1621

ampullous1622

tympanous1625

high-flown1632

tumorousa1637

blustered1638

tumid1648

bombastical1649

ranting1650

inflated1652

tuftaffetya1658

pompiona1670

bombastic1704

dropsical1721

thundering1725

turgid1725

exsuffolate1744

Lexiphanic1767

hi cockalorum1783

Ossianic1788

mouthing1814

mouthy1827

sophomoric1837

highfalutin1839

sophomorical1847

spread eagle1853

tumescent1882

Herodian1886

Ossianesque1889

Barnumesque1890

1632 T. Drant in J. Vicars tr. Virgil XII Aeneids sig. A8 Let reverend sway and awfull majestie Of laws, before those high-flown poems die, Cries great Augustus.

1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 324 In his high-flown conceits.

a1699 T. Comber Hist. Liturgies in Compan. Temple (1702) II. 38 He is noted..for his high flown Style.

1756 J. Wesley Let. 6 Jan. (1931) III. 370 Renounce, despise, abhor all the high-flown bombast, all the unintelligible jargon of the Mystics, and come back to the plain religion of the Bible.

1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. 77 Such are the high-flown expressions of Prudentius.

1820 W. Scott Monastery II. ii. 42 The high-flown and ornate compliments with which the gallant knight of the sixteenth century interlarded his conversation.

1879 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. 3rd Ser. i. 22 Sentiments, which are occasionally too high-flown and overstrained.

1927 Observer 24 Apr. 8/4 There is an air of strain, as if she were attempting..to achieve a high-flown style.

1952 C. Day Lewis Grand Manner 23 Lost, too, are the rhetoric of pulpit and parliament, the ceremonious style of letter-writing, the high-flown leading article.

2007 Nature 7 June 614/1 The mission statement that appeared in the second issue of Nature in 1869..may use archaically high-flown language, but it still applies.

4. Of a person: extreme in opinion or partisanship, esp. in support of the authority and claims of the established church or state. Cf. high-flyer n. 4. Now historical and somewhat rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > extreme opinion, dogmatism > [adjective]

high?1535

Arctic1593

magistral1596

forward1608

confident1611

magisterial1635

pragmatic1638

high-flown1640

affirmative1650

thetical1653

positive1658

pragmatical1660

dogmatical1662

dogmatic1681

unargumentative1722

ultra1820

doctrinaire1834

cocksure1842

doctrinary1846

unevidential1853

Doctrinarian1878

pontificating1922

fundamentalist1928

hardcore1951

society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > groups or attitudes right to left > [adjective] > right > authoritarian

high-flown1640

high-flying1678

1640 W. Sclater, Jr. Death's Summons 52 The vaunting high-flown false Apostles..were well able to gloze over an ill matter with fine speech and very well worded language.

1672 A. Wood Life (1891) I. 146 He was a high-flone Cavalier.

1681 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) I. 124 The former [party] are called by the latter, tories, tantivies..high flown church men, &c.

?1706 E. Hickeringill Priest-craft: 2nd Pt. viii. 86 You see, old Highflown Beau! of whom they learnt.

1747 Biographia Britannica I. 243 In 1635 he [sc. Sir Thomas Aston] was High-Sheriff of Cheshire, being then esteemed a person of good natural parts, and a high-flown Monarchist.

1822 Republican 8 Mar. 294 Such a publication would not now be deemed seditious, or called a libel by..the most high-flown Tory and tool of Kingcraft.

1867 C. Redding Personal Reminisc. Eminent Men II. 223 What are become of those high-flown advocates of every doctrine?

1981 O. Chadwick Popes & European Revol. viii. 537 But he..regretted new high-flown theorists of papal power.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	high-flown
释义	high-flownadj. Brit. /ˌhʌɪˈfləʊn/, U.S. /ˈhaɪˈˌfloʊn/ Forms: see high adv. and flown adj.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: high adv., flown adj.¹ Etymology: < high adv. + flown adj.¹With sense 4 compare high adj. 13. 1. That flies or has flown at or to a great height. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > moving with current of air or water > motion in the air > [adjective] > flying (as) with wings > high high-flying1549 towering1597 high-flown?1609 altivolant1656 high-riding1766 ?1609 G. Chapman tr. Homer Twelue Bks. Iliads xii. 212 A high flowne eagle sorde on their troopes left hand. 1686 N. Cox Gentleman's Recreation (ed. 3) ii. 5 Canceleer, is when a high-flown Hawk in her stooping turneth two or three times upon the wing, to recover her self before she seizeth. 1868 W. Barnes Poems of Rural Life in Common Eng. 171 Tall chimneys up with high-flown larks. 1919 L. R. Freeman To Kiel in ‘Hercules’ i. 13 It was the day of the surrender, and the Cardiff, with her high-flown kite balloon in tow, was leading the line of German battle-cruisers out of the eastern mist. 2013 Orange County (Calif.) Reg. (Nexis) 2 Mar. Some of the water flowing from Orange County taps might have arrived courtesy of the Sahara Desert, a new study of high-flown atmospheric dust reveals. 2. Exceedingly great or intense; brought to a high pitch, elevated; elated. Formerly also: †intoxicated, drunk; cf. high adj. 19a (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > drunk fordrunkenc897 drunkena1050 cup-shottenc1330 drunka1400 inebriate1497 overseenc1500 liquor1509 fou1535 nase?1536 full1554 intoxicate1554 tippled1564 intoxicated1576 pepst1577 overflown1579 whip-cat1582 pottical1586 cup-shota1593 fox-drunk1592 lion-drunk1592 nappy1592 sack-sopped1593 in drink1598 disguiseda1600 drink-drowned1600 daggeda1605 pot-shotten1604 tap-shackled1604 high1607 bumpsy1611 foxed1611 in one's cups1611 liquored1611 love-pot1611 pot-sick1611 whift1611 owl-eyed1613 fapa1616 hota1616 inebriated1615 reeling ripea1616 in one's (or the) pots1618 scratched1622 high-flown?1624 pot-shot1627 temulentive1628 ebrious1629 temulent1629 jug-bitten1630 pot-shaken1630 toxed1635 bene-bowsiea1637 swilled1637 paid1638 soaken1651 temulentious1652 flagonal1653 fuddled1656 cut1673 nazzy1673 concerned1678 whittled1694 suckey1699 well-oiled1701 tippeda1708 tow-row1709 wet1709 swash1711 strut1718 cocked1737 cockeyed1737 jagged1737 moon-eyed1737 rocky1737 soaked1737 soft1737 stewed1737 stiff1737 muckibus1756 groggy1770 muzzeda1788 muzzya1795 slewed1801 lumpy1810 lushy1811 pissed1812 blue1813 lush1819 malty1819 sprung1821 three sheets in the wind1821 obfuscated1822 moppy1823 ripe1823 mixed1825 queer1826 rosined1828 shot in the neck1830 tight1830 rummy1834 inebrious1837 mizzled1840 obflisticated1840 grogged1842 pickled1842 swizzled1843 hit under the wing1844 obfusticatedc1844 ebriate1847 pixilated1848 boozed1850 ploughed1853 squiffy?1855 buffy1858 elephant trunk1859 scammered1859 gassed1863 fly-blown1864 rotten1864 shot1864 ebriose1871 shicker1872 parlatic1877 miraculous1879 under the influence1879 ginned1881 shickered1883 boiled1886 mosy1887 to be loaded for bear(s)1888 squiffeda1890 loaded1890 oversparred1890 sozzled1892 tanked1893 orey-eyed1895 up the (also a) pole1897 woozy1897 toxic1899 polluted1900 lit-up1902 on (also upon) one's ear1903 pie-eyed1903 pifflicated1905 piped1906 spiflicated1906 jingled1908 skimished1908 tin hat1909 canned1910 pipped1911 lit1912 peloothered1914 molo1916 shick1916 zigzag1916 blotto1917 oiled-up1918 stung1919 stunned1919 bottled1922 potted1922 rotto1922 puggled1923 puggle1925 fried1926 crocked1927 fluthered1927 lubricated1927 whiffled1927 liquefied1928 steamed1929 mirackc1930 overshot1931 swacked1932 looped1934 stocious1937 whistled1938 sauced1939 mashed1942 plonked1943 stone1945 juiced1946 buzzed1952 jazzed1955 schnockered1955 honkers1957 skunked1958 bombed1959 zonked1959 bevvied1960 mokus1960 snockered1961 plotzed1962 over the limit1966 the worse for wear1966 wasted1968 wired1970 zoned1971 blasted1972 Brahms and Liszt?1972 funked up1976 trousered1977 motherless1980 tired and emotional1981 ratted1982 rat-arsed1984 wazzed1990 mullered1993 twatted1993 bollocksed1994 lashed1996 the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adjective] > carrying things to a high pitch high-flown?1624 ?1624 G. Chapman tr. Hymn to Hermes in tr. Crowne Homers Wks. 55 Hermes sung..All her high-flowne fame Of being Ioues Mistresse. 1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 148 As yet oppression was not so high flown. a1656 J. Ussher Ann. World (1658) vi. 112 The king, being somewhat high flowen with drink. 1702 R. Steele Funeral ii. 35 We..have nothing at all, of all this High-Flown-Fury! 1792 D. Lloyd Voy. Life iv. 73 Do not launch Life's bay untutor'd..Like some high-flown intoxicated brain Afloat on reeds. 1842 C. Brontë Let. in E. C. Gaskell Life C. Brontë (1857) I. xi. 257 In a high-flown humour, he forbade me to use either dictionary or grammar. 1929 D. H. Lawrence Pornogr. & Obscenity 27 The most high-flown sex-emancipated young people. 1991 V. Kast Joy, Inspiration, & Hope xi. 113 When ecstasy fails to find rootedness in a structure, we become high-flown, as in the ‘high’ produced by drugs. 3. Of language, style, etc.: using elevated or formal expressions; extravagant, hyperbolical; bombastic, grandiose. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > exaggeration, hyperbole > [adjective] > of language windya1382 wide1574 fustian1592 high-flown1632 tall1670 screamy1882 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [adjective] > inflated or bombastic fleshyc1369 windya1382 unmeasureda1425 puffing1566 embossed1578 puffed1587 bombasted1589 fustian1592 puffya1594 full-mouthed1594 orificial1594 gouty1595 swelling1597 mouth-filling1598 taffeta1598 bombast1601 tiptoe-strouting1602 turgidous1602 swollen1605 dropsieda1616 exsufflicatea1616 turgent1621 ampullous1622 tympanous1625 high-flown1632 tumorousa1637 blustered1638 tumid1648 bombastical1649 ranting1650 inflated1652 tuftaffetya1658 pompiona1670 bombastic1704 dropsical1721 thundering1725 turgid1725 exsuffolate1744 Lexiphanic1767 hi cockalorum1783 Ossianic1788 mouthing1814 mouthy1827 sophomoric1837 highfalutin1839 sophomorical1847 spread eagle1853 tumescent1882 Herodian1886 Ossianesque1889 Barnumesque1890 1632 T. Drant in J. Vicars tr. Virgil XII Aeneids sig. A8 Let reverend sway and awfull majestie Of laws, before those high-flown poems die, Cries great Augustus. 1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 324 In his high-flown conceits. a1699 T. Comber Hist. Liturgies in Compan. Temple (1702) II. 38 He is noted..for his high flown Style. 1756 J. Wesley Let. 6 Jan. (1931) III. 370 Renounce, despise, abhor all the high-flown bombast, all the unintelligible jargon of the Mystics, and come back to the plain religion of the Bible. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. 77 Such are the high-flown expressions of Prudentius. 1820 W. Scott Monastery II. ii. 42 The high-flown and ornate compliments with which the gallant knight of the sixteenth century interlarded his conversation. 1879 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. 3rd Ser. i. 22 Sentiments, which are occasionally too high-flown and overstrained. 1927 Observer 24 Apr. 8/4 There is an air of strain, as if she were attempting..to achieve a high-flown style. 1952 C. Day Lewis Grand Manner 23 Lost, too, are the rhetoric of pulpit and parliament, the ceremonious style of letter-writing, the high-flown leading article. 2007 Nature 7 June 614/1 The mission statement that appeared in the second issue of Nature in 1869..may use archaically high-flown language, but it still applies. 4. Of a person: extreme in opinion or partisanship, esp. in support of the authority and claims of the established church or state. Cf. high-flyer n. 4. Now historical and somewhat rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > extreme opinion, dogmatism > [adjective] high?1535 Arctic1593 magistral1596 forward1608 confident1611 magisterial1635 pragmatic1638 high-flown1640 affirmative1650 thetical1653 positive1658 pragmatical1660 dogmatical1662 dogmatic1681 unargumentative1722 ultra1820 doctrinaire1834 cocksure1842 doctrinary1846 unevidential1853 Doctrinarian1878 pontificating1922 fundamentalist1928 hardcore1951 society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > groups or attitudes right to left > [adjective] > right > authoritarian high-flown1640 high-flying1678 1640 W. Sclater, Jr. Death's Summons 52 The vaunting high-flown false Apostles..were well able to gloze over an ill matter with fine speech and very well worded language. 1672 A. Wood Life (1891) I. 146 He was a high-flone Cavalier. 1681 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) I. 124 The former [party] are called by the latter, tories, tantivies..high flown church men, &c. ?1706 E. Hickeringill Priest-craft: 2nd Pt. viii. 86 You see, old Highflown Beau! of whom they learnt. 1747 Biographia Britannica I. 243 In 1635 he [sc. Sir Thomas Aston] was High-Sheriff of Cheshire, being then esteemed a person of good natural parts, and a high-flown Monarchist. 1822 Republican 8 Mar. 294 Such a publication would not now be deemed seditious, or called a libel by..the most high-flown Tory and tool of Kingcraft. 1867 C. Redding Personal Reminisc. Eminent Men II. 223 What are become of those high-flown advocates of every doctrine? 1981 O. Chadwick Popes & European Revol. viii. 537 But he..regretted new high-flown theorists of papal power. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.?1609
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