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
WumWUMLimburgish
Nikola (1)-Serbian, Croatian, Slovene, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Hungarian, Czech, Basque, Medieval Slavic
Vasanta-Hinduism
ReaganRAY-gənEnglish, Irish
Janenejə-NEENEnglish
Evgenyyev-GYE-nee, eev-GYE-neeRussian