| 词汇 | stuffed-shirt |
| 释义 | stuffed shirt noun[ C ] informaldisapprovinguk /ˌstʌft ˈʃɜːt/ us /ˌstʌft ˈʃɝːt/ someone who behaves in a very formal and old-fashioned way and thinks that they are very important一本正经的人;古板的人;妄自尊大的人 People who are boring and old-fashioned bore buzzkill Colonel Blimp crashing bore dinosaur drip fogey fun sponge grind has-been killjoy Luddite normcore saddo spod spoilsport square stick-in-the-mud uncharismatic yawn Examples of stuffed shirtstuffed shirt Where does this stuffedshirt get off criticizing everyone based on his warped perception? From CNN He was a stuffedshirt. From New York Post I played the stuffedshirt lawyer. From TIME The old man's a stuffedshirt and you know it. From Project Gutenberg I'm tired of all that other crowd--the stuffedshirt brigade, you know. From Project Gutenberg His employees think he's a stuffedshirt, too. From Project Gutenberg He didn't go for either stuffed shirts or strong silent men. From Project Gutenberg These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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