felluting

Updated: May 16, 2025

Now rents are down one-half, and he could get as good a house for 100l a year, whereas he pays 200l In 1857 it was to use a vile Yankee phrase, the literal meaning of which no one can explain, but the illustrative meaning of which is inflation "High Felluting" or, as the Yankees write it, "Hi Falutin" now everything is sobered, and in many places depressed: only one house now being built in all this town of 40,000 inhabitants."

E. W. (Edward William) Watkin - Canada and the States