fantoosh
adj.— «It seems to me very like the situation in England; Scots is closer to the short-word phase, having lost all its fantoosh expressions when it lost its Court and fashionable people in the 1600s.» —“Re: Cernunous” by Sheila McGregor Usenet: soc.culture.celtic May 25, 1996. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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