STUFFED SHIRT

Meaning of STUFFED SHIRT in English

a person who is too rigid or too formal He is a stuffed shirt and I never feel comfortable to try and talk with him.

English idioms vocab. Словарь английских идиом и выражений. 2012

STUFFED SHIRT — noun Date: 1904 a smug, conceited, and usually pompous person often with an inflexibly conservative or reactionary attitude
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
STUFFED SHIRT — noun : a smug conceited usually pompous person with an inflexibly conservative or reactionary attitude nothing of the stuffed shirt …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
STUFFED SHIRT — a pompous, self-satisfied, and inflexible person. [ 1910-15, Amer. ]
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
STUFFED SHIRT — (Slang) pompous and conceited person
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
STUFFED SHIRT — Date: 1904 : a smug, conceited, and usually pompous person often with an inflexibly conservative or reactionary attitude
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
STUFFED SHIRT — Function: noun Date: 1904 : a smug, conceited, and usually pompous person often with an inflexibly conservative or reactionary attitude
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
STUFFED SHIRT — ■ noun informal a conservative, pompous person.
Concise Oxford English vocab
STUFFED SHIRT — [stuffed shirt] n (1913): a smug, conceited, and usu. pompous person often with an inflexibly conservative or reactionary attitude
Merriam-Webster English vocab
STUFFED SHIRT — noun ( informal , disapproving ) a person who is very serious, formal or old-fashioned
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
STUFFED SHIRT — ˌstuffed ˈshirt BrE AmE noun [countable] informal someone who behaves in a very formal way and thinks that they are …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
STUFFED SHIRT — ( stuffed shirts) If you describe someone, especially someone with an important position, as a stuffed shirt , you mean …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
STUFFED SHIRT — (~s) If you describe someone, especially someone with an important position, as a ~, you mean that they are extremely …
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
STUFFED SHIRT — noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Marcus was a true intellectual stuffed shirt . EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Modigliani clearly …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
STUFFED SHIRT — {n. phr.} A pretentious bore; a pompous, empty person. * /I think that Howard is a terrible stuffed shirt with …
Slang English vocab
STUFFED SHIRT — Function: noun a smug usually pompous person with an inflexibly conservative or reactionary outlook FF1C; a stuffed shirt with a …
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocab
STUFFED SHIRT — noun a smug usually pompous person with an inflexibly conservative or reactionary outlook a stuffed shirt with a starched mind …
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocabulary
STUFFED SHIRT — {n. phr.} A pretentious bore; a pompous, empty person. * /I think that Howard is a terrible stuffed shirt with …
Словарь английских идиом
STUFFED SHIRT — n. phr. A pretentious bore; a pompous, empty person. I think that Howard is a terrible stuffed shirt with no …
American Idioms English vocabulary
STUFFED SHIRT — сл. напыщенное ничтожество (пренебрежительное) чванливое, напыщенное ничтожество
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
STUFFED SHIRT — пренебр. чванливое, напыщенное ничтожество
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
STUFFED SHIRT — сленгнапыщенное ничтожество These women and their stuff-shirt escorts. — Эти женщины и их ничтожные, напыщенные ухажеры.
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
STUFFED SHIRT — пренебр. чванливое, напыщенное ничтожество
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь - Апресян, Медникова
STUFFED SHIRT — пренебр. чванливое, напыщенное ничтожество
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
STUFFED SHIRT — напыщенное ничтожество
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
STUFFED SHIRT — напыщенное ничтожество
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
STUFFED SHIRT — сл. напыщенное ничтожество These women and their stuff-shirt escorts. — Эти женщины и их ничтожные, напыщенные ухажеры.
Англо-Русский словарь по общей лексике
STUFFED SHIRT — сл. напыщенное ничтожество These women and their stuff-shirt escorts. — Эти женщины и их ничтожные, напыщенные ухажеры.
Англо-Русский словарь общей лексики
STUFFED SHIRT — _жарг. напыщенное ничтожество
Англо-Русский словарь Мюллера - 24 редакция
STUFFED SHIRT — жарг. напыщенное ничтожество
Англо-Русский словарь Мюллера - редакция bed
STUFFED SHIRT — напыщенное ничтожество
Англо-Русский дополнительный словарь
STUFFED SHIRT — _n. _жарг. напыщенное ничтожество
Англо-Русский словарь Мюллера
STUFFED SHIRT — сл. напыщенное ничтожество (пренебрежительное) чванливое, напыщенное ничтожество
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
SHIRT — I. ˈshər]t, ˈshə̄], ˈshəi], usu ]d.+V noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English shirte, sherte, from Old English scyrte; akin …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
STUFFED — (imp. & p. p.) of Stuff
Английский словарь Webster
SHIRT — (v. t. & i.) To cover or clothe with a shirt, or as with a shirt.
Английский словарь Webster
STUFFED — ( imp. & p. p. ) of Stuff
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
SHIRT — ( v. t. & i. ) To cover or clothe with a shirt, or as with a shirt.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
SHIRT — — shirtless , adj. /sherrt/ , n. 1. a long- or short-sleeved garment for the upper part of the body, …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
STUFFED — adj. filled with some sort of stuffing; full of food (Informal)
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
SHIRT — noun Etymology: Middle English shirte, from Old English scyrte; akin to Old Norse skyrta shirt, Old English scort short Date: …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
STUFFED — impf & ·p.p. of stuff.
Webster English vocab
SHIRT
Webster English vocab
SHIRT — [shirt] n [ME shirte, fr. OE scyrte; akin to ON skyrta shirt, OE scort short] (bef. 12c) 1: a garment …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
SHIRT — any of a variety of cloth garments having sleeves and worn on the upper part of the body, often under …
Britannica English vocabulary
STUFFED — / stʌft; NAmE / adjective [ not before noun ] ( informal ) having eaten so much that you cannot …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SHIRT — / ʃɜːt; NAmE ʃɜːrt/ noun a piece of clothing (usually for men), worn on the upper part of the body, …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
STUFFED — stuffed /stʌft/ BrE AmE adjective [not before noun] completely full, so that you cannot eat any more: No, no dessert …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
SHIRT — shirt S2 W3 /ʃɜːt $ ʃɜːrt/ BrE AmE noun [countable] [ Language: Old English ; Origin: scyrte ] 1 . …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
SHIRT — n. 1 a man's upper-body garment of cotton etc., having a collar, sleeves, and esp. buttons down the front, and …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
SHIRT — n. 1 a man's upper-body garment of cotton etc., having a collar, sleeves, and esp. buttons down the front, and …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
SHIRT — n.1 a man's upper-body garment of cotton etc., having a collar, sleeves, and esp. buttons down the front, and often …
Oxford English vocab
STUFFED — see stuff
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SHIRT — ( shirts) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. A shirt is a …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
STUFFED — see stuff
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
STUFFED — adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES be crammed/stuffed/packed etc full of sth ▪ Ted’s workshop was crammed full of old engines. …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
SHIRT — noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a clean shirt/sheet/towel etc ▪ Where are all my clean socks? a cotton shirt/dress/jacket etc …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
STUFFED — [adjective] [not gradable]stuffed peppers
Cambridge English vocab
SHIRT — [noun] [C] - a piece of clothing worn esp. by men on the upper part of the body, made of …
Cambridge English vocab
STUFFED — Synonyms and related words : SRO, allayed, awash, bloated, blocked, bound, brimful, brimming, bulging, bursting, capacity, chock-full, choked, choked up, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
SHIRT — Synonyms and related words : O, basque, blouse, bodice, body shirt, body suit, coat shirt, corsage, dickey, doublet, dress shirt, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
STUFFED — Adj. 1. Concerned, bothered. Usually phrased in the negative. E.g."I'm not stuffed with going out drinking tonight."2. In a position …
Slang English vocab
SHIRT — See: GIVE THE SHIRT OFF ONE'S BACK, KEEP ONE'S SHIRT ON, LOSE ONE'S SHIRT.
Slang English vocab
STUFFED — adj. Function: adjective Synonyms: FULL 1, awash, brimful, brimming, chock-full, crammed, crowded, jammed, loaded, replete
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocab
STUFFED — adjective Synonyms: full 1, awash, brimful, brimming, chock-full, crammed, crowded, jammed, loaded, replete
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocabulary

English Idioms vocab

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