- stuffed shirt
- noun Date: 1904 a smug, conceited, and usually pompous person often with an inflexibly conservative or reactionary attitude
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stuffed shirt — stuffed shirts N COUNT (disapproval) If you describe someone, especially someone with an important position, as a stuffed shirt, you mean that they are extremely formal and old fashioned. [INFORMAL] He was so smart he charmed everybody from… … English dictionary
stuffed shirt — n informal someone who behaves in a very formal way and thinks that they are important … Dictionary of contemporary English
stuffed shirt — noun count INFORMAL a boring person who always behaves in a very correct way … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
stuffed shirt — stuffed′ shirt′ n. a pompous, self satisfied, and inflexible person … From formal English to slang
stuffed shirt — ► NOUN informal ▪ a conservative, pompous person … English terms dictionary
stuffed shirt — ☆ stuffed shirt n. Slang a pompous, pretentious person … English World dictionary
stuffed shirt — noun a bore who is extremely formal, pompous, and old fashioned • Usage Domain: ↑colloquialism • Hypernyms: ↑bore, ↑dullard * * * noun : a smug conceited usually pompous person with an inflexibly conservative or reactionary attitude nothing of… … Useful english dictionary
stuffed shirt — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms stuffed shirt : singular stuffed shirt plural stuffed shirts informal a boring person who always behaves in a very correct way … English dictionary
stuffed shirt — noun a) One who is pompous or self important, especially one who is officious in a position of authority. Dont you come the high and holy on me. You and your smooth, big, phony stuffed shirt of a father. b) Used attributively. Dr. Laughlin was… … Wiktionary
stuffed shirt — n. a dull and stuffy person, usually a male. □ Mr. Wilson is a stuffed shirt, and people would tell him so if he didn’t have so much money. □ I don’t want to listen to that stuffed shirt anymore … Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions
stuffed shirt — {n. phr.} A pretentious bore; a pompous, empty person. * /I think that Howard is a terrible stuffed shirt with no sense of humor./ … Dictionary of American idioms
