One who acts in a self-important manner - used mockingly as a jocose term, as if a title of honor, but not usually in the presence of the person to whom referred.
"A cast of the skull and bones of the hominid Homo floresiensis will be displayed for the first time at a public symposium titled “Hobbits in the Haystack.”
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