a stuffed shirt



a stuffed shirt

someone, especially a man, who behaves in a formal, old-fashioned way and thinks they are very important I knew he was a banker and expensively educated so I was expecting him to be a stuffed shirt.
See also: shirt, stuff

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Bennie['beni]
NeptuneNEP-toon (English), NEP-tyoon (English), NEP-choon (English)Roman Mythology (Anglicized)
Brenda['bendə]
Dragan-Serbian, Croatian, Slovene, Macedonian, Bulgarian
Aman['æmən]
Gretchen['gretʃən]