This week’s theme
Words related to clothing

This week’s words
top-hat
coattail
hairshirt
stuffed shirt
slyboots

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PRONUNCIATION:

(stuhft shuhrt)

MEANING:

noun: A pompous, self-satisfied, and old-fashioned person.

ETYMOLOGY:

From the formally-dressed look of such a person. Earliest documented use: 1840s.

USAGE:

“Peter Dawson’s persona might come across as a stuffed shirt but he is, in fact, a personable character with a mischievous sense of humour.”
James Corrigan; Farewell to the Moderniser of the R&A; The Sunday Telegraph (London, UK); Jul 12, 2015.

See more usage examples of stuffed shirt in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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