stuffed shirt
stuffed shirt noun: one who is pompous or self-important, especially one who is either officious or punctilious in a position of authority.
Noun
stuffed shirt (plural stuffed shirts)
- 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
- Bernstein, am I a stuffed shirt? Am I a horse-faced hypocrite? Am I a New England school marm?1941, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles, Citizen Kane (motion picture), spoken by Jedediah Leland (Joseph Cotten), RKO Radio Pictures
stuffed shirt meaning in Tamil
stuffed shirt in Tamil
- அதிகாரத் தோரணையுள்ளவர், வெற்று ஜம்பம் கொண்ட அதிகாரி
Forms of stuffed shirt
| plural | stuffed shirts |
|---|---|
| alternative form | stuffed-shirt |
Questions about stuffed shirt
- What does stuffed shirt mean?
- Stuffed shirt means one who is pompous or self-important, especially one who is either officious or punctilious in a position of authority.
- What is stuffed shirt in Tamil?
- Stuffed shirt in Tamil is அதிகாரத் தோரணையுள்ளவர், வெற்று ஜம்பம் கொண்ட அதிகாரி. See Stuffed shirt meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is stuffed shirt?
- Stuffed shirt is a noun.
- What is the plural of stuffed shirt?
- The plural of stuffed shirt is stuffed shirts.
Words near stuffed shirt in the dictionary
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