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stuffed shirt
noun
: a person who behaves in a very formal way and expects to be treated as someone very important
Full Definition of STUFFED SHIRT
: a smug, conceited, and usually pompous person often with an inflexibly conservative or reactionary attitude
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First Known Use of STUFFED SHIRT
1904
Related to STUFFED SHIRT
- Synonyms
- antediluvian, Colonel Blimp, dodo, fossil, fud, fuddy-duddy, mossback, reactionary, stick-in-the-mud, fogy
Rhymes with STUFFED SHIRT
advert, alert, assert, avert, bellwort, birthwort, Blackshirt, brownshirt, bush shirt, camp shirt, colewort, concert, convert, covert, desert, dessert, dissert, divert, dress shirt, evert, exert, expert, exsert, figwort, fleawort, glasswort, hair shirt, Hastert, hornwort, inert, insert, invert, lousewort, lungwort, madwort, milkwort, mugwort, nightshirt, outskirt, overt, pay dirt, pervert, pilewort, ragwort, redshirt, revert, ribwort, saltwort, sandwort, Schubert, seagirt, sea squirt, soapwort, spearwort, spleenwort, stitchwort, stonewort, subvert, sweatshirt, toothwort, T-shirt, ungirt
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