Stuffy
['stʌfɪ] or ['stʌfi]
Definition
(adj.) affected with a sensation of stoppage or obstruction; 'a stuffy feeling in my chest' .
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Definition
(a.) Stout; mettlesome; resolute.
(a.) Angry and obstinate; sulky.
(a.) Ill-ventilated; close.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [Scottish.] Stout, resolute.[2]. [Colloquial, U. S.] Angry (and obstinate), sulky, moody, irate, ireful, wrathful.
Typist: Naomi
Definition
adj. badly ventilated musty: causing difficulty in breathing: (Scot.) stout: sturdy: (slang) sulky.—n. Stuff′iness.
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Examples
- They were sitting in the little, stuffy parlor when the distant chugging of an approaching automobile caught their attention. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The room was stuffy with the window closed but I was too tired to get up and open it. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The saddles were the high, stuffy, frog-shaped things we had known in Ephesus and Smyrna. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- In her stuffy room at the hotel to which she had gone on landing, Lily Bart that evening reviewed her situation. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The train was electrically heated and stuffy but fresh cold air came in through the window. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
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