STARCHED

Definition: STARCHED

STARCHED

Adjective

1. Stiff; precise; formal.

2. Stiffened with starch.

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Starch

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "STARCHED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references)

Slang in 1811

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Synonym: STARCHED

Hardness

Adjective: hard, rigid, stubborn, stiff, firm; starch, starched; stark, unbending, unlimber, unyielding; inflexible, tense; indurate, indurated; gritty, proof.

Ostentation

Solemn, stately, majestic, formal, stiff, ceremonious, punctilious, starched.

Ceremony, ceremonial; ritual; form, formality; etiquette; puncto, punctilio, punctiliousness; starched stateliness, stateliness.

Crosswords: STARCHED

And then you thought up this whole idea and you managed to keep your skirts nice and starched and clean, even in the court martial. (The Caine Mutiny; writing credit: Herman Wouk; Stanley Roberts)

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Books

• The Starched Blue Sky of Spain (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Mr Tate did not break it but dug with his hand between his crossed thighs while his heavily starched linen creaked about his neck and wrists.

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Expression using "STARCHED": starched stateliness. Additional references.

Albanian

i kollarisur (starchy). (various references)

Arabic 

‏منشى (starchy). (various references)

Bulgarian 

колосан (starchy, stiff). (various references)

Czech

škrobený (ceremonious, starchy). (various references)

Dutch

gesteven artikel (starched article). (various references)

French

féculent (starchy), empesé (stiff). (various references)

German

steif (erect, formal, hard, prim, primly, rigid, starchily, starchy, stiff, stiffly, stilted, stoutly, strained, strong, stuffily, stuffy, taut, tautly, trig, wooden). (various references)

Greek 

κολλαριστόσ, κολαριστόσ, τυπικόσ (ceremonial, ceremonious, conventional, formal, modal, perfunctory, prim, typical). (various references)

Hebrew 

מעומלן (prim, starchy, stiffened). (various references)

Hungarian

keményített (starchy). (various references)

Italian

oggetto inamidato (starched article). (various references)

Manx

starkit (stiffened). (various references)

Pig Latin

archedstay

Portuguese

artefacto engomado (starched article). (various references)

Russian 

накрахмаленный (starchy). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

usiljen (constrained, forced, mannered, starch, starchy, stiff, strained), ukrućen (stiff), uštirkan. (various references)

Spanish

almidonado (boiled, starchy). (various references)

Swedish

stärkt (starchy). (various references)

Turkish

sert (acrid, adamant, astringent, austere, bad, bitter, boisterous, bossy, brisk, brutal, cast iron, crusty, cutting, drastic, exact, exacting, fierce, firm, flinty, forbidding, get-tough, granitic, grim, gruff, gusty, hard, hard and fast, hard bitten, hard line, hard set, hardening, hard-hitting, harsh, heady, heavy, heavy-handed, hot, ill natured, inclement, incompressible, inelastic, intemperate, iron, ironclad, keen, nappy, pointed, pungent, rigid, rigorous, rough, round, sclerous, severe, sharp, sharp-set, short, short-spoken, shrewd, smart, solid, sound, spanking, spartan, spiky, stand up, starchy, stark, stern, stiff, strict, stringent, strong, surly, tart, tough, unbending, ungentle, unkind, unrelenting, unshaded, unyielding, vehement, violent), resmi tavırlı, kolalı (starchy), ciddi (austere, businesslike, capital, critical, demure, devout, earnest, eventful, forbidding, grave, gut, important, momentous, mortally, sedate, serious, sober, sober minded, solemn, staid, unsmiling). (various references)

Ukrainian

крохмальний (amyloid). (various references)

Vietnamese 

có h�" bột (starchy). (various references)

Misspellings

"STARCHED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Sarkhel, stache, starked, stiched, Strakhov. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: charted, chaster, crashed, dearths, echards, hardest, hardset, hatreds, rachets, ratches, redacts, scarted, scathed, threads, trashed.

-2 letters: arched, arches, cadets, cadres, carets, carted, cartes, cashed, caster, caters, cedars, chards, chared, chares, charts, chased, chaser, chaste, cheats, cherts, crated, crates, dasher, daters, dearth, deaths, derats, detach, earths, echard, eschar, hasted, haters, hatred, hearts, rachet.

+1 letter: cathedras, chordates, detachers, scratched, tracheids.

+2 letters: cathedrals, dispatcher, rachitides.

+3 letters: achondrites, cantharides, dichromates, dispatchers, dogcatchers, octahedrons, packthreads, tetrachords.

+4 letters: birdwatchers, crosshatched, diaphoretics, disenchanter, orchestrated, orthopaedics, radiochemist, shortchanged, stickhandler, tetradrachms, thunderclaps, urochordates.

+5 letters: carbohydrates, cardiopathies, creaturehoods, dechlorinates, disenchanters, handcraftsmen, handicrafters, hemichordates, hydrothoraces, procathedrals, radiochemists, stickhandlers, straightlaced, trisaccharide, trisoctahedra.