STUFFED SHIRT


Meaning of STUFFED SHIRT in English

noun

: a smug conceited usually pompous person with an inflexibly conservative or reactionary attitude

nothing of the stuffed shirt in him … never put on airs — W.S.Maugham

at the heart of the legends … discovers a stuffed shirt, a faker, or a moral monster — DeLancey Ferguson

a stuffed shirt with a starched mind

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