starchy

starched

and starchy

mod. alcohol intoxicated. (see also stiff.) No, he wasn’t quite stiff, but he was starched.

verb

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Stepan	stye-PAHN (Russian), stee-PAHN (Russian)	Russian, Armenian
Romola	RO-mo-lah	Italian
Royce	[rɔis]
Julie	['dʒu:li]
Artturi	AHRT-too-ree	Finnish
Carpenter	['ka:pəntə]