STUFFED SHIRT

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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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