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Definition of Stuffy

1. Adjective. Lacking fresh air. "Hot and stuffy and the air was blue with smoke"

2. Adjective. Excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull. "A stodgy dinner party"

3. Adjective. Affected with a sensation of stoppage or obstruction. "A stuffy feeling in my chest"

Definition of Stuffy

1. a. Stout; mettlesome; resolute.

Definition of Stuffy

1. Adjective. Poorly ventilated; partially plugged. ¹

2. Adjective. Stout; mettlesome; resolute. ¹

3. Adjective. Angry and obstinate; sulky. ¹

4. Adjective. Boring, uninteresting, over-formal, pompous, very conventional. ¹

5. Noun. (US Canada colloquial often childish) A stuffed animal or other plush toy. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Stuffy

1. poorly ventilated [adj STUFFIER, STUFFIEST] : STUFFILY [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stuffy

stuffer fragment stuffers stuffie stuffier stuffies stuffiest stuffily stuffiness stuffinesses stuffing

stuffing box stuffing nut stuffings stuffless stuffs stuffy (current term) stuggier stuggiest stuggy stuiver

stuivers stuke stull stulls stulm stulms stulp stulps stultification stultifications

Literary usage of Stuffy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Sonnenschein's Cyclopædia of Education: A Handbook of Reference on All by Alfred Ewen Fletcher (1889)
"On entering a room of which the atmosphere is impure, it will be found perceptibly stuffy if the carbonic acid in it reaches six parts in ten thousand of ..."

2. The New York of the Novelists by Arthur Bartlett Maurice (1917)
"... Bed Line—Madison Square—Union Square— stuffy Pete's Bench. WHEN we come to a consideration of that part of the trail which shall be designated as "Tea, ..."

3. John Ayscough's Letters to His Mother During 1914, 1915, and 1916 by John Ayscough (1919)
"ing it began to rain at six and went on all night — still, it is as stuffy and muggy as ever. I bought a tonic to-day, and it is so good I should like to be ..."

4. John Ayscough's Letters to His Mother During 1914, 1915, and 1916 by John Ayscough (1919)
"ing it began to rain at six and went on all night — still, it is as stuffy and muggy as ever. I bought a tonic to-day, and it is so good I should like to be ..."

5. Swinton's First [-sixth] Reader by William Swinton (1882)
"stuffy and Spitfire. a-ha' down'y Speck'le stuffy part hur'ry quar'rel Spit'fire feed shab'by a-shamed' ear'ly meal al'most ..."

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