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stuffed shirt (noun)

  • 1 stuffed shirt

    пренебр. чванливое, напыщенное ничтожество
    Синонимический ряд:
    1. blimp (noun) blimp; Colonel Blimp; fuddy-duddy
    2. elitist (noun) condescending person; egotist; elitist; parvenu; pretender; snob; snoot; snot; upstart

    English-Russian base dictionary > stuffed shirt

  • 2 blimp

    1. n разг. чинуша, тупой исполнитель; тупица, человек-автомат
    2. n разг. робот, автомат
    3. n воен. жарг. дирижабль
    4. n кино звукозаглушающий бокс кинокамеры
    Синонимический ряд:
    1. airship (noun) aerostat; airship; balloon; captive balloon; dirigible; free balloon; weather balloon; zeppelin
    2. fatty (noun) butterball; dumpling; fatty
    3. reactionary (noun) bourbon; diehard; reactionarist; reactionary; reactionist; royalist; ultraconservative; white
    4. stuffed shirt (noun) Colonel Blimp; fuddy-duddy; stuffed shirt

    English-Russian base dictionary > blimp

  • 3 fuddy-duddy

    1. n разг. ворчун; критикан
    2. n разг. человек с устаревшими взглядами; консерватор
    3. a разг. ворчливый, придирчивый
    4. a разг. отсталый; закостеневший, заскорузлый; консервативный
    Синонимический ряд:
    1. fogy (noun) antediluvian; fogey; fogram; fogy; fossil; mid-Victorian; mossback; square; stick-in-the-mud
    2. stuffed shirt (noun) blimp; Colonel Blimp; stuffed shirt
    3. worrier (noun) fretter; fussbudget; fusser; fusspot; granny; old lady; old maid; worrier

    English-Russian base dictionary > fuddy-duddy

  • 4 snob

    1. n сноб
    2. n выскочка, парвеню; человек, стремящийся пролезть в общество
    Синонимический ряд:
    1. elitist (noun) condescending person; egotist; elitist; high-hat; parvenu; pretender; snoot; snot; stuffed shirt; upstart
    2. cut (verb) cold-shoulder; cut; ostracize; snub

    English-Russian base dictionary > snob

  • 5 snoot

    1. n амер. рыло
    2. n амер. сл. нос, рыло; морда, рожа
    3. n амер. гримаса
    4. n амер. разг. сноб, задавала
    5. v амер. разг. третировать; относиться свысока
    Синонимический ряд:
    elitist (noun) condescending person; egotist; elitist; parvenu; pretender; snob; snot; stuffed shirt; upstart

    English-Russian base dictionary > snoot

См. также в других словарях:

  • stuffed shirt — noun a bore who is extremely formal, pompous, and old fashioned • Usage Domain: ↑colloquialism • Hypernyms: ↑bore, ↑dullard * * * noun : a smug conceited usually pompous person with an inflexibly conservative or reactionary attitude nothing of… …   Useful english dictionary

  • stuffed shirt — noun count INFORMAL a boring person who always behaves in a very correct way …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • stuffed shirt — ► NOUN informal ▪ a conservative, pompous person …   English terms dictionary

  • stuffed shirt — noun a) One who is pompous or self important, especially one who is officious in a position of authority. Dont you come the high and holy on me. You and your smooth, big, phony stuffed shirt of a father. b) Used attributively. Dr. Laughlin was… …   Wiktionary

  • stuffed shirt — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms stuffed shirt : singular stuffed shirt plural stuffed shirts informal a boring person who always behaves in a very correct way …   English dictionary

  • stuffed shirt — noun Date: 1904 a smug, conceited, and usually pompous person often with an inflexibly conservative or reactionary attitude …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • stuffed shirt — noun informal a conservative, pompous person …   English new terms dictionary

  • stuffed shirt — noun (C) someone who behaves in a very formal way and thinks that they are important …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • stuffed shirt — /ˈstʌft ʃɜt/ (say stuft shert) noun Colloquial a pompous, pretentious person …  

  • shirt — noun (C) 1 a piece of clothing that covers the upper part of your body and your arms, usually has a collar, and is fastened at the front by buttons: I have to wear a shirt and tie to work. 2 keep your shirt on spoken used to tell someone who is… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • conformist — noun he was too much of a conformist to wear anything but a suit Syn: traditionalist, conservative, stickler, formalist, diehard, reactionary; informal stick in the mud, stuffed shirt Ant: eccentric, rebel …   Thesaurus of popular words

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