Sentence:  'Sounding grander is not always better,' answered the cobber. 'Did you never hear tell of High <WSD>Cockalorum</WSD>?' / 'High <WSD>Cockalorum</WSD>! What's that?' / 'It's what they call high footling speech, or a self-important man who likes to call everything by fancy names,' said his master. 'And as I heard it, it didn't do the man in the tale any good at all.' 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Boastful speech, crowing.