stuffed shirt

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stuffed shirt

noun stuffed shirts · stuffed-shirt

  1. idiomatic, informal One who is pompous or self-important, especially one who is either officious or punctilious in a position of authority. "Don't you come the high-and-holy on me. You and your smooth, big, phony stuffed-shirt of a father."

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noun one who is overly-officious

Españolpersona estirada
DeutschWichtigtuer, Wichtigmacher
Italianopallone gonfiato
Русскийнапыщенное ничто́жество napyščennoje ničtóžestvo

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@misc{stuffed_shirt_2026,
  title = {stuffed shirt},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/stuffed%20shirt},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}