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(archaic) Behavior adopted to demonstrate one's superiority; pretentious or snobbish behavior; airs and graces. +

(obsolete) Flighty, giddy, or silly behaviour; also, noisy merriment. +

(Britain, dialectal) A young woman regarded as flighty, giddy, or silly.

Affected or pretentious, sometimes with the implication of displaying an air of excessive fanciness or ostentation; pompous, self-important, snobbish.

(obsolete) Flighty, giddy, silly; also, merry in a noisy manner.

Flightily, giddily.

Merrily, in a noisy manner.

(dated) (Expressing disapprobation or surprise at acts or words that are pompous or snobbish, or flighty.) +