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Definition of Stuffed shirt
1. Noun. A bore who is extremely formal, pompous, and old-fashioned.
Definition of Stuffed shirt
1. Noun. (idiomatic) One who is pompous or self-important, especially one who is officious in a position of authority. ¹
2. Noun. (usually hyphenated) Used attributively. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stuffed Shirt
Literary usage of Stuffed shirt
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... partly strengthened by metal plates, or even a quilted finen or stuffed shirt.
Greaves were of pliant bronze fastened at the back above the ankle and ..."
2. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1854)
"Each wore a flat cloth-cap, of a drab-color, a stuffed shirt without a collar,
with a flannel under-shirt, petticoat pantaloons, fastened below the knee, ..."
3. The Best Short Stories of ... and the Yearbook of the American Short Story edited by [Anonymus AC02789944] (1919)
"Old stuffed shirt," sighed Buster with exquisite content. He turned his gaunt
young head on the pillow; he tucked a brawny fist under his cheek. ..."
4. Instigations of Ezra Pound: Together with an Essay on the Chinese Written by Ezra Pound, Ernest Francisco Fenollosa (1920)
"... "stuffed-shirt," Kreisler is equally a sign-post pointing to the advisability
of some sort of intellectual or at least commonsense management of the ..."
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