OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 26132

stuffed shirt

Meanings (ES + gloss)
persona estirada
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."
Bernstein, am I a stuffed shirt? Am I a horse-faced hypocrite? Am I a New England school marm?
Phrases
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