starchedadj.

Brit.

/stɑːtʃt/, U.S.

/stɑrtʃt/

Forms: see starch v. and -ed suffix¹.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: starch n., -ed suffix²; starch v., -ed suffix¹.

Etymology: Partly (especially in sense 1a) < starch n. + -ed suffix², and partly < starch v. + -ed suffix¹.Very much earlier currency (in more general sense) is perhaps shown by the first element of Old English sterced-ferhð (only in verse; also as stærced-ferhð ) stout-hearted, determined, resolute, apparently lit. ‘with the mind made hard’; however, this has alternatively been interpreted as showing a derivative formation directly from the base of stark adj.

†a. Of communion bread: made with an unnaturally large amount of starch. Obsolete. rare.Cf. quots. 1531 at starch n. 1a, 1633 at starchy adj. 1a.

ΚΠ

1554 Humble & Vnfained Confession Poore Banished Men sig. E.ii We should at the ministracion and recept of the Sacrament, haue good natural bread: but in stede thereof, we haue printed waifers, and suche starched stuffe, as is not pure & perfecte bread.

b. Of cloth, clothing, etc.: stiffened with starch or a similar substance. Formerly also †starched-out.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [adjective] > starched

starched1586

yellow1587

clear-starched1774

starchy1844

1586 J. Prime Expos. St. Paul to Galathians 259 Monsterous starcht supported rufs.

1617 B. Rich Irish Hubbub 9 Wee haue conuerted the coller of steele to a yellow-starched-band.

1663 J. V. Canes Epist. to Authour of Animadversions Fiat Lux 86 Your pure neat white starched bands and cuffs.

1707 J. Stevens tr. F. de Quevedo Comical Wks. (1709) 223 My curious starch'd Band.

1765 H. Jackson Ess. Brit. Isinglass 28 Fine Linen..will acquire the necessary Gloss and Stiffness, and will not stick to the Iron like starched Linen.

1817 W. Scott Rob Roy I. i. 8 The ex-minister, as bolt upright as a starched ruff and laced cassock could make him.

1847 A. S. Mayhew & H. Mayhew Greatest Plague of Life vii. 87 A fly-a-way starched-out imitation Balzorine gown.

1873 Mrs. H. Wood in Argosy Jan. 69 Aunt Dashingly wore her great crimson turban..and that starched-out old amber-satin gown.

1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles II. xxv. 52 A broad-brimmed hat and highly-starched cambric morning-gown.

1921 J. Dos Passos Three Soldiers iv. ii. 216 Starched cuffs peeped from under the well-tailored sleeves of his officer's uniform.

1979 E. L. Doctorow Loon Lake xii. 70 The starched front of her uniform rose and fell with her breathing.

2010 C. Rice Extraordinary, Ordinary People viii. 75 I ruined more than a few of those starched dresses, much to my mother's dismay and my father's delight.

c. Of the beard or hair: stiffened or whitened with starch. Now rare (chiefly historical in later use).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > preparations used on the hair > [adjective] > dressed with preparations > with starch

starched1592

1592 T. Nashe Strange Newes sig. F2 If thou hast any manhood in thy starcht peake, looke vpon me and weepe not.

1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor iv. iii. sig. Mii^v Who? this i' the starcht Beard?

1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island vii. lxxi. 102 Some with black terrours his faint conscience baited, That wide he star'd, and starched hair did stand.

1641 T. Jordan Pictures of Passions, Fancies, & Affections sig. C2^v His practick Cringe, his studied Phrase, The starched Beard, with the smile-varnish'd Face.

1819 Brit. Critic 11 Index Whiskers curled and starched beards.

1885 H. Knollys Eng. Life China ii. 275 She dares not rest her head on it lest she should thereby disarrange that tower of starched hair which she has spent hours in erecting.

1901 C. E. Phelps Falstaff & Equity 53 Puff-sleeved gentlemen with peaked starched beards, who wore doublet and slashed hose.

2011 M. A. Johnston Beard Fetish ii. 92 Starched whiskers could materialize a man's formal dignity, stringent discipline, rigorous determination, and unwavering faithfulness.

2. figurative. Stiff, formal; prim; = starchy adj. 2.

a. Of a person, a person's countenance, behaviour, etc. Also starched-up.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > discourtesy > [adjective] > not affable

strange1338

estrangec1374

formal?1518

cold1557

squeamish1561

icy1567

buckrama1589

repulsive1598

starched1600

unaffable1603

stiff1608

withdrawing1611

reserved1612

aloof1639

cool1641

uncordial1643

inaffable1656

staunch1659

standfra1683

distant1710

starcha1716

distancing1749

pokerish1779

buckramed1793

angular1808

easeless1811

touch-me-not1817

starchy1824

standoffish1826

offish1827

poker-backed1830

standoff1837

stiffish1840

chilly1841

unapproachable1848

hedgehoggy1866

sticky1882

hard-to-get1899

stand-away1938

princesse lointaine1957

1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor i. ii. sig. Ciii^v And when you come to Plaies, bee Humorous, looke with a good starch't face, and ruffle your brow like a new boot.

1607 ‘W. S.’ Puritaine i. 12 Good Cocks-combe? what makes that pure-starch'd foole here?

1652 J. Shirley Brothers v. 56 in Six New Playes (1653) One boysterous fellow With a starch'd voice, and a worse vizard..quoited me Into the coach agen.

1662 Bp. E. Hopkins Funeral Serm. (1663) 35 This taught him to outstrip in true wisdome, temperance and fortitude..whatsoever those starch't and formall moralists did.

1711 J. Swift Argument abolishing Christianity in Misc. Prose & Verse 172 Does the Gospel any where prescribe a starcht squeezed Countenance, a Stiff formal Gate.

1745 D. E. Baker tr. ‘A. F. de Avellaneda’ Don Quixote II. vi. v. 206 We must send for those fine effeminate Fellows, those starched up Beaus of our Sex.

1749 T. Smollett tr. A. R. Le Sage Gil Blas III. viii. ix. 162 A parcel of insolent fellows with their self-sufficient, starched airs.

1822 W. Irving Bracebridge Hall xxvi. 235 Mrs. Hannah moved about with starched dignity among the rustics.

1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxvii. 276 His looks were starched, but his white neckerchief was not.

1862 G. A. Sala Accepted Addr. 5 I was seriously afraid that I should be married to some starched old maid.

1906 J. P. Stewart Diagnosis of Nerv. Dis. xvii. 243 The patient stands with the trunk stooping forwards, the face appearing ‘starched’ and expressionless.

1936 Cosmopolitan Nov. 171/1 Ain't talking to the girls tonight, eh, sport? You only talk to your starched-up good girls. That it, Johnny?

1989 N. Cave And Ass saw Angel iii. 186 So starched and pursy was her gait that she looked neither left nor right but straight ahead.

2006 Psychologies (U.K. ed.) July 45/4 She has set her heart on a handsome but heavily starched academic..who is poised to be unhappily married to a frumpy killjoy.

b. Of speech, writing, method, practice, etc.

ΚΠ

1646 T. Edwards 1st & 2nd Pt. Gangræna (ed. 3) ii. 40 Cretensis..hath a multitude of bom-basted, starched words, priding himself therein.

1659 A. Wood Life & Times (1891) I. 300 And ‘scandalus’ it was to have a formall starcht prayer before it.

1693 Humours & Conversat. Town 31 Syllogising, that damn'd starch'd method of the Schools.

a1734 R. North Examen (1740) ii. v. §133 398 And they wrote it as he spoke it, which useth not to be in any starched Method.

1792 M. Wollstonecraft Vindic. Rights Woman v. 217 A cultivated understanding, and an affectionate heart, will never want starched rules of decorum.

1858 G. J. Holyoake Trial of Theism xxiv. 149 You do not feel a living church moving under free principles, but you find a starched and petrified creed, pressing on an automatised congregation.

1883 A. I. Ritchie Bk. of Sibyls i. 28 A contrast to prim, starched scholastic life.

1903 Ainslee's Nov. 147/2 The remedy for the errant husband, the starched attitudes, the discomfort, the unbreathable air of that house..was a touch of rouge!

a1996 R. Samuel Island Stories (1998) 41 The BBC, starched accents and all, was ‘the voice of Britain’.

2006 D. L. Caffey Frank Springer & New Mexico xiii. 177 His starched prose makes somewhat ponderous reading.

Derivatives

ˈstarchedly adv.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > constitution of matter > hardness > types of hardness > [adverb] > stiffly or rigidly

rigorouslyc1425

starkly?1523

stricklinga1642

starchedly1670

stiffly1678

rigidly1759

1670 T. Stanhope 4 Serm. 4 Discourses from the Pulpit, may as well be nauseous when slovenly worded, as when starchedly delivered.

1694 J. Mackqueen Good Patriot To Rdr. sig. 4^v Under an affected humility, pride, lurking starchtly.

1704 J. Swift Let. 20 Apr. in Corr. (1963) I. 45 In answer to all this, I might with good pretence enough talk starchtly [1767 and some later eds. starchly], and affect ignorance of what you would be at.

1873 R. Browning Red Cotton Night-cap Country i. 26 See, the church With its white steeple..Starchedly warrants all beneath is matched By all above, one snowy innocence!

1974 L. Auchincloss Partners iii. 51 The too rigorously smiling, too starchedly posed portrait-photograph of Ginevra.

ˈstarchedness n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > discourtesy > [noun] > lack of affability

strangenessc1386

unhomelinessc1440

fremdnessa1500

coldness1557

coolnessa1586

self-guarda1586

diskindness1596

formality1599

reservedness1606

inaffability1611

restrainta1616

unconess1637

chillness1639

froideur1645

distance1660

starchedness1670

buckram1682

starchness?1693

starch1694

reserve1711

stiffness1717

unapproachableness1727

retirement1803

angularity1824

standoffishness1826

distancy1836

chill1837

starchiness1844

unapproachability1846

hedgehogginess1858

standoff1865

offishness1867

aloofness1878

pokerishness1880

untouchableness1909

untouchability1919

stuffiness1926

1670 E. Fowler Princ. & Pract. Moderate Divines iii. 341 Free Conversation, void of all Sourness, Starchtness, & Affectation.

1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi vii. ii. 7/2 The Fierceness of his Talking in Publick, and the Starchtness of his Living in Private.

1887 Belgravia Feb. 400 The painters of the day had been unable to keep out of their work a certain stiffness and starchedness of aspect.

1907 Atlantic Monthly Dec. 793/2 He relaxed somewhat of his starchedness and responded pleasantly enough to my greeting.

2011 V. Robson Wessex Revisited ii. 8 On inspecting the bed she found not crisp, white, lavender scented cotton starchedness, but polycotton slipperiness in shocking pink.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	starched
释义	starchedadj. Brit. /stɑːtʃt/, U.S. /stɑrtʃt/ Forms: see starch v. and -ed suffix¹. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: starch n., -ed suffix²; starch v., -ed suffix¹. Etymology: Partly (especially in sense 1a) < starch n. + -ed suffix², and partly < starch v. + -ed suffix¹.Very much earlier currency (in more general sense) is perhaps shown by the first element of Old English sterced-ferhð (only in verse; also as stærced-ferhð ) stout-hearted, determined, resolute, apparently lit. ‘with the mind made hard’; however, this has alternatively been interpreted as showing a derivative formation directly from the base of stark adj. 1. †a. Of communion bread: made with an unnaturally large amount of starch. Obsolete. rare.Cf. quots. 1531 at starch n. 1a, 1633 at starchy adj. 1a. ΚΠ 1554 Humble & Vnfained Confession Poore Banished Men sig. E.ii We should at the ministracion and recept of the Sacrament, haue good natural bread: but in stede thereof, we haue printed waifers, and suche starched stuffe, as is not pure & perfecte bread. b. Of cloth, clothing, etc.: stiffened with starch or a similar substance. Formerly also †starched-out. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [adjective] > starched starched1586 yellow1587 clear-starched1774 starchy1844 1586 J. Prime Expos. St. Paul to Galathians 259 Monsterous starcht supported rufs. 1617 B. Rich Irish Hubbub 9 Wee haue conuerted the coller of steele to a yellow-starched-band. 1663 J. V. Canes Epist. to Authour of Animadversions Fiat Lux 86 Your pure neat white starched bands and cuffs. 1707 J. Stevens tr. F. de Quevedo Comical Wks. (1709) 223 My curious starch'd Band. 1765 H. Jackson Ess. Brit. Isinglass 28 Fine Linen..will acquire the necessary Gloss and Stiffness, and will not stick to the Iron like starched Linen. 1817 W. Scott Rob Roy I. i. 8 The ex-minister, as bolt upright as a starched ruff and laced cassock could make him. 1847 A. S. Mayhew & H. Mayhew Greatest Plague of Life vii. 87 A fly-a-way starched-out imitation Balzorine gown. 1873 Mrs. H. Wood in Argosy Jan. 69 Aunt Dashingly wore her great crimson turban..and that starched-out old amber-satin gown. 1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles II. xxv. 52 A broad-brimmed hat and highly-starched cambric morning-gown. 1921 J. Dos Passos Three Soldiers iv. ii. 216 Starched cuffs peeped from under the well-tailored sleeves of his officer's uniform. 1979 E. L. Doctorow Loon Lake xii. 70 The starched front of her uniform rose and fell with her breathing. 2010 C. Rice Extraordinary, Ordinary People viii. 75 I ruined more than a few of those starched dresses, much to my mother's dismay and my father's delight. c. Of the beard or hair: stiffened or whitened with starch. Now rare (chiefly historical in later use). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > preparations used on the hair > [adjective] > dressed with preparations > with starch starched1592 1592 T. Nashe Strange Newes sig. F2 If thou hast any manhood in thy starcht peake, looke vpon me and weepe not. 1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor iv. iii. sig. Mii^v Who? this i' the starcht Beard? View more context for this quotation 1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island vii. lxxi. 102 Some with black terrours his faint conscience baited, That wide he star'd, and starched hair did stand. 1641 T. Jordan Pictures of Passions, Fancies, & Affections sig. C2^v His practick Cringe, his studied Phrase, The starched Beard, with the smile-varnish'd Face. 1819 Brit. Critic 11 Index Whiskers curled and starched beards. 1885 H. Knollys Eng. Life China ii. 275 She dares not rest her head on it lest she should thereby disarrange that tower of starched hair which she has spent hours in erecting. 1901 C. E. Phelps Falstaff & Equity 53 Puff-sleeved gentlemen with peaked starched beards, who wore doublet and slashed hose. 2011 M. A. Johnston Beard Fetish ii. 92 Starched whiskers could materialize a man's formal dignity, stringent discipline, rigorous determination, and unwavering faithfulness. 2. figurative. Stiff, formal; prim; = starchy adj. 2. a. Of a person, a person's countenance, behaviour, etc. Also starched-up. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > discourtesy > [adjective] > not affable strange1338 estrangec1374 formal?1518 cold1557 squeamish1561 icy1567 buckrama1589 repulsive1598 starched1600 unaffable1603 stiff1608 withdrawing1611 reserved1612 aloof1639 cool1641 uncordial1643 inaffable1656 staunch1659 standfra1683 distant1710 starcha1716 distancing1749 pokerish1779 buckramed1793 angular1808 easeless1811 touch-me-not1817 starchy1824 standoffish1826 offish1827 poker-backed1830 standoff1837 stiffish1840 chilly1841 unapproachable1848 hedgehoggy1866 sticky1882 hard-to-get1899 stand-away1938 princesse lointaine1957 1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor i. ii. sig. Ciii^v And when you come to Plaies, bee Humorous, looke with a good starch't face, and ruffle your brow like a new boot. View more context for this quotation 1607 ‘W. S.’ Puritaine i. 12 Good Cocks-combe? what makes that pure-starch'd foole here? 1652 J. Shirley Brothers v. 56 in Six New Playes (1653) One boysterous fellow With a starch'd voice, and a worse vizard..quoited me Into the coach agen. 1662 Bp. E. Hopkins Funeral Serm. (1663) 35 This taught him to outstrip in true wisdome, temperance and fortitude..whatsoever those starch't and formall moralists did. 1711 J. Swift Argument abolishing Christianity in Misc. Prose & Verse 172 Does the Gospel any where prescribe a starcht squeezed Countenance, a Stiff formal Gate. 1745 D. E. Baker tr. ‘A. F. de Avellaneda’ Don Quixote II. vi. v. 206 We must send for those fine effeminate Fellows, those starched up Beaus of our Sex. 1749 T. Smollett tr. A. R. Le Sage Gil Blas III. viii. ix. 162 A parcel of insolent fellows with their self-sufficient, starched airs. 1822 W. Irving Bracebridge Hall xxvi. 235 Mrs. Hannah moved about with starched dignity among the rustics. 1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxvii. 276 His looks were starched, but his white neckerchief was not. 1862 G. A. Sala Accepted Addr. 5 I was seriously afraid that I should be married to some starched old maid. 1906 J. P. Stewart Diagnosis of Nerv. Dis. xvii. 243 The patient stands with the trunk stooping forwards, the face appearing ‘starched’ and expressionless. 1936 Cosmopolitan Nov. 171/1 Ain't talking to the girls tonight, eh, sport? You only talk to your starched-up good girls. That it, Johnny? 1989 N. Cave And Ass saw Angel iii. 186 So starched and pursy was her gait that she looked neither left nor right but straight ahead. 2006 Psychologies (U.K. ed.) July 45/4 She has set her heart on a handsome but heavily starched academic..who is poised to be unhappily married to a frumpy killjoy. b. Of speech, writing, method, practice, etc. ΚΠ 1646 T. Edwards 1st & 2nd Pt. Gangræna (ed. 3) ii. 40 Cretensis..hath a multitude of bom-basted, starched words, priding himself therein. 1659 A. Wood Life & Times (1891) I. 300 And ‘scandalus’ it was to have a formall starcht prayer before it. 1693 Humours & Conversat. Town 31 Syllogising, that damn'd starch'd method of the Schools. a1734 R. North Examen (1740) ii. v. §133 398 And they wrote it as he spoke it, which useth not to be in any starched Method. 1792 M. Wollstonecraft Vindic. Rights Woman v. 217 A cultivated understanding, and an affectionate heart, will never want starched rules of decorum. 1858 G. J. Holyoake Trial of Theism xxiv. 149 You do not feel a living church moving under free principles, but you find a starched and petrified creed, pressing on an automatised congregation. 1883 A. I. Ritchie Bk. of Sibyls i. 28 A contrast to prim, starched scholastic life. 1903 Ainslee's Nov. 147/2 The remedy for the errant husband, the starched attitudes, the discomfort, the unbreathable air of that house..was a touch of rouge! a1996 R. Samuel Island Stories (1998) 41 The BBC, starched accents and all, was ‘the voice of Britain’. 2006 D. L. Caffey Frank Springer & New Mexico xiii. 177 His starched prose makes somewhat ponderous reading. Derivatives ˈstarchedly adv. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > hardness > types of hardness > [adverb] > stiffly or rigidly rigorouslyc1425 starkly?1523 stricklinga1642 starchedly1670 stiffly1678 rigidly1759 1670 T. Stanhope 4 Serm. 4 Discourses from the Pulpit, may as well be nauseous when slovenly worded, as when starchedly delivered. 1694 J. Mackqueen Good Patriot To Rdr. sig. 4^v Under an affected humility, pride, lurking starchtly. 1704 J. Swift Let. 20 Apr. in Corr. (1963) I. 45 In answer to all this, I might with good pretence enough talk starchtly [1767 and some later eds. starchly], and affect ignorance of what you would be at. 1873 R. Browning Red Cotton Night-cap Country i. 26 See, the church With its white steeple..Starchedly warrants all beneath is matched By all above, one snowy innocence! 1974 L. Auchincloss Partners iii. 51 The too rigorously smiling, too starchedly posed portrait-photograph of Ginevra. ˈstarchedness n. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > discourtesy > [noun] > lack of affability strangenessc1386 unhomelinessc1440 fremdnessa1500 coldness1557 coolnessa1586 self-guarda1586 diskindness1596 formality1599 reservedness1606 inaffability1611 restrainta1616 unconess1637 chillness1639 froideur1645 distance1660 starchedness1670 buckram1682 starchness?1693 starch1694 reserve1711 stiffness1717 unapproachableness1727 retirement1803 angularity1824 standoffishness1826 distancy1836 chill1837 starchiness1844 unapproachability1846 hedgehogginess1858 standoff1865 offishness1867 aloofness1878 pokerishness1880 untouchableness1909 untouchability1919 stuffiness1926 1670 E. Fowler Princ. & Pract. Moderate Divines iii. 341 Free Conversation, void of all Sourness, Starchtness, & Affectation. 1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi vii. ii. 7/2 The Fierceness of his Talking in Publick, and the Starchtness of his Living in Private. 1887 Belgravia Feb. 400 The painters of the day had been unable to keep out of their work a certain stiffness and starchedness of aspect. 1907 Atlantic Monthly Dec. 793/2 He relaxed somewhat of his starchedness and responded pleasantly enough to my greeting. 2011 V. Robson Wessex Revisited ii. 8 On inspecting the bed she found not crisp, white, lavender scented cotton starchedness, but polycotton slipperiness in shocking pink. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1554
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