lah-di-dah

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lah-di-dah (old-fashioned) also la-di-da (old-fashioned)

a woman who is lah-di-dah thinks she is better than other people and tries to speak as if she is from a high social class No one really liked her in the village. They all thought she was a bit lah-di-dah.

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