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See also: stuffie
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /ˈstʌfi/
- Rhymes: -ʌfi
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Adjective[edit]
stuffy (comparative stuffier, superlative stuffiest)
- Poorly ventilated; partially plugged.
- Synonym: fusty
- I can’t smell very well today – I have a stuffy nose.
- Let’s go outside – it’s getting stuffy in here.
- Uncomfortably warm without sufficient air circulation.
- Synonym: oppressive
- Like my life was a stuffy room, and you’re the breeze that came in when the window opened.
- Stout; mettlesome; resolute.
- (US) Angry and obstinate; sulky.
- Boring, uninteresting, over-formal, pompous, very conventional.
- The stuffy professor droned on as the class lost interest.
- (Scotland) Stout; sturdy.
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Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
poorly ventilated
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stout; mettlesome; resolute
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angry and obstinate; sulky
Noun[edit]
stuffy (plural stuffies)
- (US, Canada, colloquial, often childish) Synonym of stuffed toy
Alternative forms[edit]
Translations[edit]
stuffed toy — see soft toy
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