Starchy

Definition: Starchy

Starchy

Adjective

1. Consisting of or containing starch; "starchy foods".

2. Rigidly formal; "a starchy manner"; "the letter was stiff and formal"; "his prose has a buckram quality".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "starchy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1884. (references)

Synonyms: Starchy

Crosswords: Starchy

Books

• Mark Twain & the Starchy Boys (reference)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Child of agricultural day laborer living near Tullahassee, Oklahoma. Notice the distended stomach, which is indicative of malnutrution and unbalanced diet with too many starchy foods. This condition is prevalent throughout the tenant farmer and day labori. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Health

These include vegetables, cereal, grains, beans, peas, and other starchy foods. (references)

Starchy foods include pasta, rice, grains, cereals, crackers, bread, potatoes, dried beans, peas, and legumes. (references)

This can be prevented by having a bedtime snack that provides protein and complex carbohydrates such as starchy foods. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Ending with "starchy": stiff-and-starchy.

Albanian

si niseshte, i ngrirë (congealed, dull, freezing, frost-bound, frosted, frozen, glace, glassy, lame, numb, prim, stiff, stilted), i kollarisur (starched). (various references)

Arabic 

‏منشى (starched), ‏مقسى بالنشا, ‏مترسم, ‏نشوي (amyloid, farinaceous), ‏رسمي (authoritative, ceremonial, ceremonious, cocktail dress, dressed, formal, official, picturesque, solemn, state, stiff). (various references)

Bulgarian 

съдържащ скорбяла (amyloid), скован (angular, benumbed, constrained, inelastic, rigid, starch, stark, stiff), колосан (starched, stiff), педантичен (academic, academical, bookish, donnish, finical, literal, mandarin, niminy-piminy, pedantic, pettifogging, precise, priggish, punctilious, punctual, scholastic, stuffy). (various references)

Chinese 

上了浆. (various references)

Czech

upjatý (stiff, unapproachable), škrobový (farinaceous, farinose), škrobený (ceremonious, starched). (various references)

Danish

stivelsesholdig, stivelsesagtig. (various references)

Farsi 

اهاری , اهاردار, رسمی (Ceremonious, Formal, Official, Solemn), شبیه نشاسته , دارای نشاسته . (various references)

Finnish

tärkkelyspitoinen. (various references)

French

féculent (starched). (various references)

German

stärkehaltig (amylaceous). (various references)

Greek 

αμυλώδησ, αμυλώδες (of high viscosity, sticky). (various references)

Hebrew 

מעומלן (prim, starched, stiffened), מכיל עמילן, קשיח (hard, rigid, stiff), עמיל� י, � וקש�" (coarse, dour, frigid, hard, hardliner, horny, inflexible, intractable, rigid, rough, severe, stiff). (various references)

Hungarian

kikeményített, feszes (slinky, starch, starched, stiff, stressful, taut, tense, tight). (various references)

Italian

ricco d'amido, farinacei. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

澱粉質 (farinaceous, starchiness), �"み箱 (garbage can or box, idleness, purring, rubbish bin, scatter, stiff, thunder). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

で�"ぷ�"しつ (farinaceous, starchiness), �"わ�"わ (stiff). (various references)

Korean 

�"��"�한. (various references)

Pig Latin

archystay.(various references)

Portuguese

feculento. (various references)

Romanian

amilaceu (amylaceous), ţeapãn (benumbed, heavy, stiff, stout, strait laced, sturdy, unbending). (various references)

Russian 

чопорный (buckram, donnish, niminy-piminy, prim, prim and proper, prissy, stand offish, strait-laced), крахмальный (starch), крахмалистый, накрахмаленный (starched). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

usiljen (constrained, forced, mannered, starch, starched, stiff, strained), nalik na skrob, brašnast, štirkan. (various references)

Spanish

tieso (hard, stiff, tense, tight), feculento (feculent), fécula (carbohydrate, potato flour, starch), estirado (drawn, extended, formal, pompous, prim, Sniffy, stiff, stiff necked, stretched, stretched tight, stuck up, tense, tight, tight-fisted, vain), amiláceo, almidonado (boiled, starched). (various references)

Swedish

stärkelsehaltig (farinaceous). (various references)

Turkish

soğuk (aloof, angular, apathetic, apathetical, bleak, calm, chill, chilling, chilly, cold, cool, cryo-, distant, freezing, frigid, frostiness, frosty, frozen, icily, inclement, inhospitable, marble, offish, Parky, phlegmatic, phlegmatical, remote, rigorous, saturnine, standoffish, stiff, stony, uncompanionable, unfriendly, unsympathetic, wintry), 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, starched, stark, stern, stiff, strict, stringent, strong, surly, tart, tough, unbending, ungentle, unkind, unrelenting, unshaded, unyielding, vehement, violent), resmi (authorized, ceremonial, ceremonious, certificated, civil, formal, legal, official, regulation, solemn, state, statutory), nişastalı (amylaceous, farinaceous), kolalı (starched), karbonhidratlı, özlü (brief, capsule, compact, concise, juicy, laconic, lapidary, loamy, lush, meaty, pithy, pulpy, racy, sappy, sententious, substantial, succinct, succulent, terse). (various references)

Ukrainian

крохмалистий (amyloid, farinaceous), манірний (affected, angular, ceremonious, donnish, finical, lackadaisical, mannered, mincing, minikin, namby-pamby, niminy-piminy, offish, prim, prudish, smug). (various references)

Vietnamese 

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

Misspellings

"Starchy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Osadchy, sarch, sarcy, stach, starah, starcch, starchily, starky, startch, strach, Sturch, utarchy. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: charts, starch, trashy, yachts.

-2 letters: artsy, carts, chars, chart, chary, chats, chays, crash, harts, hasty, ratch, rhyta, satyr, scart, scary, stray, tachs, tahrs, trash, trays, yacht.

-3 letters: achy, acts, arch, arcs, arts, arty, ashy, cars, cart, cash, cast, cats, cays, char, chat, chay, cyst, hart, hast, hats, hays, racy, rash, rath, rats, rays.

+1 letter: scratchy, yachters.

+2 letters: starchily, trachytes.

+3 letters: archetypes, athrocytes, hysterical, psychiatry, scratchily, switchyard.

+4 letters: arthroscopy, crashworthy, flycatchers, hydrostatic, hyperstatic, hypogastric, ichthyosaur, macrophytes, psychiatric, pyracanthas, saprophytic, switchyards.

+5 letters: antihysteric, astrophysics, cartoonishly, chrestomathy, cryptarithms, cryptographs, historically, hydrostatics, hyperactives, hyperplastic, hysterically, ichthyosaurs, intrapsychic, lachrymators, lachrymosity, lycanthropes, orchestrally, phylacteries, physiocratic, psychiatries, psychiatrist, saccharinity, scintigraphy, tachycardias, tracheostomy, unhysterical.