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stuffed shirt

American  

noun

  1. a pompous, self-satisfied, and inflexible person.

stuffed shirt British  

noun

  1. informal a pompous or formal person

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stuffed shirt Idioms  

  1. An overly formal or pompous person, as in She's such a stuffed shirt that I'm surprised you'd invite her to a barbecue. This expression alludes to a shirt filled with paper (instead of a real person). [c. 1900]

Etymology

Origin of stuffed shirt

An Americanism dating back to 1910–15

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