stuffed shirt

stuffed shirt
noun
a bore who is extremely formal, pompous, and old-fashioned
• Usage Domain: ↑colloquialism
• Hypernyms: ↑bore, ↑dullard

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noun
: a smug conceited usually pompous person with an inflexibly conservative or reactionary attitude

nothing of the stuffed shirt in him … never put on airs — W.S.Maugham

at the heart of the legends … discovers a stuffed shirt, a faker, or a moral monster — DeLancey Ferguson

a stuffed shirt with a starched mind

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a pompous, self-satisfied, and inflexible person.
[1910-15, Amer.]

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stuffed shirt noun
A pompous, unbendingly correct person, esp if of little real importance
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Main Entry: ↑stuff

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stuffed shirt UK US noun [countable] [singular stuffed shirt plural stuffed shirts] informal
a boring person who always behaves in a very correct way
Thesaurus: people who are old-fashioned or do not like changehyponym people who complain a lot or are difficult to pleasesynonym

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stuffed shirt «stuhft»,
Slang. a person who tries to seem more important than he really is: »

His deliberately offensive behavior to academic stuffed shirts (David Daiches).

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n. informal a conservative, pompous person

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noun, pl ⋯ shirts [count]
informal + disapproving : a person who behaves in a very formal way and expects to be treated as someone very important

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ˌstuffed ˈshirt f22 [stuffed shirt] noun (informal, disapproving)
a person who is very serious, formal or old-fashioned

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The club members are not just a bunch of stuffed shirts.


Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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