starchy
Adjective
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Adjective
starchy (comparative starchier, superlative starchiest)
- Of or pertaining to starch.
- Containing starch.
- Having the quality of fabric starch as applied to fabric; stiff, hard; starched.
- 1942, Emily Carr, The Book of Small, “Sunday,”
- Beds were made, the dinner-table set, and then we got into our very starchiest and most uncomfortable clothes for church.
- 1942, Emily Carr, The Book of Small, “Sunday,”
- Having a starched personality; stiffly formal.
- Russian: накрахмаленный
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