toploftiness

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

toplofty +‎ -ness

Noun[edit]

toploftiness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being toplofty.
    • 1993, Milton Mayer, Robert Maynard Hutchins: A Memoir, page 358:
      He must have got his toploftiness about money at Yale, where, without a bean, pushing a broom, waiting table, tutoring, he had made his name and fame among the best-padded young men in the land.