| 单词 | stuffed shirt |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstuffed shirt stuffed shirt n. colloquial (originally U.S.) one who is pompous and conservative, but usually ineffectual. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > pomposity > [noun] > person puffball1763 pomposo1806 panjandrum1825 Lord Muck1858 stuffed shirt1913 blimp1935 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > [noun] > useless correctness or smartness > one who stuffed shirt1913 1913 W. Cather O Pioneers! ii. vii. 144 He characterized Frank Shabata by a Bohemian expression which is the equivalent of stuffed shirt. 1939 C. Day Lewis Child of Misfortune iii. iii. 287 These women and their stuff-shirt escorts. 1969 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 23 Feb. 7/1 He had no time at all for the ‘stuffed-shirt’ types which were beginning to show in the north [of Canada]. 1976 Country Life 26 Feb. 496/3 The American President (a stuffed shirt) and two visiting Arab oil sheiks are held to ransom. < as lemmas |
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