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stuffy

Pronunciation:  'stufee

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WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [adj]  excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull; "why is the middle class so stodgy, so utterly without a sense of humor?"; "a stodgy dinner party"
  2. [adj]  lacking fresh air; "a dusty airless attic"; "the dreadfully close atmosphere"; "hot and stuffy and the air was blue with smoke"
 
 Synonyms: airless, close, conventional, stodgy, unaired, unventilated
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Stuff"y\, a.
1. Stout; mettlesome; resolute. [Scot.] --Jamieson.

2. Angry and obstinate; sulky. [U. S.]

3. Ill-ventilated; close.

 

 

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