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
Krasimira-Bulgarian
Jolana-Czech, Slovak
Haskel-Yiddish
BrendaBREN-dəEnglish
JolÁN-Hungarian
Rens-Dutch