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stuffed shirts

stuffed shirts is the plural 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

Questions about stuffed shirts

What is stuffed shirts the plural of?
Stuffed shirts is the plural of stuffed shirt.

Words near stuffed shirts in the dictionary

  1. stuffed hams
  2. stuffed like a turkey
  3. stuffed one's face
  4. stuffed out
  5. stuffed shirt
  6. stuffed shirts
  7. stuffed the ballot box
  8. stuffed to the gills
  9. stuffed toy
  10. stuffed toys
  11. stuffed up

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