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stuffed-shirt

stuffed-shirt is the alternative form of stuffed shirt.

Meaning of stuffed shirt

Noun

stuffed shirt (plural stuffed shirts)

  1. (idiomatic, informal) One who is pompous or self-important, especially one who is either officious or punctilious in a position of authority.
    • "Don't you come the high-and-holy on me. You and your smooth, big, phony stuffed-shirt of a father."1914, Samuel Hopkins Adams, chapter 30, in The Clarion

Forms of stuffed-shirt

pluralstuffed-shirts

Questions about stuffed-shirt

What is stuffed-shirt the alternative form of?
Stuffed-shirt is the alternative form of stuffed shirt.

Words near stuffed-shirt in the dictionary

  1. stuffed the ballot box
  2. stuffed to the gills
  3. stuffed toy
  4. stuffed toys
  5. stuffed up
  6. stuffed-shirt
  7. stuffed-shirts
  8. stuffed-up
  9. stuffedness
  10. stuffer
  11. stuffer fragment

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