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    fancy-pants

    adjective

    • 1. superior or high-class in a pretentious way: informal "a fancy-pants restaurant"

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  2. www.dictionary.com › browse › fancy-pantsFANCY-PANTS Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.com

    Fancy-pants definition: fancy or snobbish; foppish; dandified.. See examples of FANCY-PANTS used in a sentence.

  3. www.oed.com › dictionary › fancy-pants_adjfancy-pants adjective & noun - Oxford English Dictionary

    The earliest known use of the word fancy-pants is in the 1870s. OED's earliest evidence for fancy-pants is from 1870, in the Titusville Morning Herald (Titusville, Pennsylvania). fancy-pants is formed within English, by compounding.

  4. www.merriam-webster.com › dictionary › fancy-pantsFancy-pants Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster

    Aug 3, 2023 · Examples of fancy-pants in a Sentence. Recent Examples on the Web But no—not good enough for these fancy-pants mathematicians who need their own set of characters just to feel special.

  5. www.collinsdictionary.com › dictionary › englishFANCY-PANTS definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary

    4 days ago · FANCY-PANTS definition: fancy or snobbish; foppish; dandified | Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples.

  6. idioms.thefreedictionary.com › fancy-pantsFancy-pants - Idioms by The Free Dictionary

    Pretentious or fancy in an extreme or excessive way. Use of this phrase often indicates the speaker's annoyance. I'd rather go to a ball game than another one of your fancy-pants corporate events. We don't need a fancy-pants vacuum, we just need one that can suck up dirt.

  7. en.wiktionary.org › wiki › fancy-pantsfancy-pants - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

    Feb 4, 2024 · fancy-pants (plural fancy-pants) Alternative spelling of fancy pants; Someone fancy, silly or attractive. That fancy-pants came around for you. You still with those fancy-pants from downtown.

  8. en.wiktionary.org › wiki › fancypantsfancypants - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

    fancypants (plural fancypants) Alternative form of fancy pants. Categories: English lemmas. English nouns. English countable nouns. English indeclinable nouns. English nouns with irregular plurals. English terms with quotations.