Stuffy
English Meaning
Stout; mettlesome; resolute.
- Lacking sufficient ventilation; close.
- Having the respiratory passages blocked: a stuffy nose.
- Dull and boring: a stuffy lecture.
- Rigidly adhering to standards of conduct; strait-laced: "I went to one stuffy upper class dinner party on my first night & I go to another tonight” ( Evelyn Waugh).