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STUFFED SHIRT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does stuffed shirt mean?
• STUFFED SHIRT (noun)
The noun STUFFED SHIRT has 1 sense:
1. a bore who is extremely formal, pompous, and old-fashioned
Familiarity information: STUFFED SHIRT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A bore who is extremely formal, pompous, and old-fashioned
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("stuffed shirt" is a kind of...):
bore; dullard (a person who evokes boredom)
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
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