stuffed shirt

1. 1.

   a bore who is extremely formal, pompous, and old-fashioned

   Broaderbore

   colloquialism

Questions about stuffed shirt

What does stuffed shirt mean?

stuffed shirt means "a bore who is extremely formal, pompous, and old-fashioned".

Is stuffed shirt a common word?

stuffed shirt is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.