fancy-pants

adjective

1. Slang. fancy or snobbish; foppish; dandified.

Word History and Origins

Origin of fancy-pants¹

First recorded in 1930–35

Example Sentences

Here, there was no party and no fancy-pants scene to entice them.

From New York Times

Food52's resident baking BFF Erin Jeanne McDowell describes her Citrus Charlotte as "A fancy-pants cake, but it's crazy beautiful."

From Salon

Fetterman set the race’s terms, successfully rendering Oz as a fancy-pants celebrity carpetbagger who also happened to be a servant-boy for Donald Trump, and the polls bore that out through August.

From Slate

Likewise, I’m stuck with proprietary Huawei apps since there’s no real third-party app support, making this more of a fancy-pants fitness tracker than a true smartwatch.

From The Verge

Meanwhile, a good chunk of the nation clutched its pearls at the line they believe was crossed when peaceful protests, harmless marches and earnest candlelight vigils began forming in the fancy-pants neighborhoods where conservative Supreme Court justices live.

From Washington Post