STUFFED SHIRT


Meaning of STUFFED SHIRT in English

noun

a smug usually pompous person with an inflexibly conservative or reactionary outlook

a stuffed shirt with a starched mind

Synonyms: Blimp, Colonel Blimp, fuddy-duddy

Related Word: diehard; prig, prude, smug

Contrasted words: freethinker, latitudinarian, liberal, libertarian, libertine; avant-garde

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