Stuffy

Definition: Stuffy

Stuffy

Adjective

1. Lacking fresh air; "a dusty airless attic"; "the dreadfully close atmosphere"; "hot and stuffy and the air was blue with smoke".

2. 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".

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

Date "stuffy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1813. (references)

Multilingual Slang

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

Synonyms: Stuffy

Density

Adjective: dense, solid; solidified. Verb: caseous; pukka; coherent, cohesive; compact, close, serried, thickset; substantial, massive, lumpish; impenetrable, impermeable, nonporous, imporous; incompressible; constipated; concrete. (hard); knotted, knotty; gnarled; crystalline, crystallizable; thick, grumous, stuffy.

Heat

Sunny, torrid, tropical, estival, canicular, steamy; close, sultry, stifling, stuffy, suffocating, oppressive; reeking. Verb: baking .

Crosswords: Stuffy

I just didn't want to be one of those stuffy, old teachers, you know (Go Fish; writing credit: Adam Herz)

And you blew the Council up. See, this is what happens when you're all stuffy and repressed, you overreact (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Stuffy, huh (White Heat; writing credit: Virginia Kellogg; Ivan Goff)

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Books

• Stuffy the Hedgehog (reference)

• Tough Sweet and Stuffy an Essay on Modern American Prose Styles (reference)

• Tough, sweet & stuffy : an essay on modern American prose styles (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Health

Symptoms of flu include fever, headache, extreme tiredness, dry cough, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose, and muscle aches. (references)

Because your nose can get stuffy when you have a condition like the common cold, you may confuse simple nasal congestion with sinusitis. (references)

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

Expressions using "stuffy": be stuffy ♦ have a stuffy nose ♦ it is stuffy ♦ stuffy nose. Additional references.

Ending with "stuffy": once-stuffy, still-stuffy.

Afrikaans

bedompig (airless, close, frowsy). (various references)

Albanian

mbytës (choker, killing, muggy, overpowering, slaughterer, smothery, suffocating, suffocator, sultry), i paajër (airless), bajat (moldy, mouldy, stale, threadbare, warmed-over). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مقفول (stoppered), ‏متعجرف (arrogant, cavalier, conceited, haughty, imperious, lordly, overbearing, overproud, overweening, presuming, presumptuous, puffed up, puffy, supercilious, swelling), ‏متجهم الوجه (scowling, sullen), ‏غير جيدة التهوية, ‏غاضب (angry, beside himself, cross, dandified, enraged, exasperating, furious, furred, glaring, grim, grumpy, indignant, irate, livid, narky, pink, revolting, sullen, wrathful, wroth), ‏خانق (choking, smothery, stifling, strangling, stuffiness, suffocating, throttling). (various references)

Bulgarian 

скучен (arid, dead alive, drear, dryasdust, dull, dumb, dusty, heartbreaking, heavy, humdrum, insipid, jejune, jogtrot, long, long winded, long-spun, moldy, monotonous, mouldy, mousey, plodding, pokey, ponderous, prosaic, prosy, slow, soggy, stodgy, tedious, uninspired, uninteresting, unvaried, vapid, weariful, wearisome), тесногръд (doctrinaire, illiberal, insular, narrow, narrow minded, one track, one-idea'd, one-ideaed, single track, straitlaced), нацупен (capernoited, grouchy, pouty), зъл (bad, bad tempered, baleful, blackhearted, evil, ill, ill disposed, ill tempered, ill-conditioned, malign, malignant, mean, scratchy, sinister, snaky, sulphurous, swart, tricky, venomous, vicious, waspish, wicked), застоял (fuggy, fusty, slack, stagnant, still, well-handled), задушен (airless, leaden, muggy, oppressive, pockety, stewed, unventilated), превзет (affected, cute, flamboyant, fussy, glossy, histrionic, lackadaisical, mannered, mincing, minikin, namby-pamby, nice, niminy-piminy, old-maidish, pansy, precious, pretentious, pretty, pretty-pretty, priggish, prim, prissy, pseudo, recherche, schoolmistressy, sidy, snobbish), педантичен (academic, academical, bookish, donnish, finical, literal, mandarin, niminy-piminy, pedantic, pettifogging, precise, priggish, punctilious, punctual, scholastic, starchy). (various references)

Chinese 

闷, 悶 (melancholy, smother). (various references)

Czech

strojený (affected, labored, laboured, mannered, meretricious, minikin, phoney, phony, refined, spurious, studied), zatuchlý (dank, foul, rancid, stagnant, stale), vydýchaný (stale), ucpaný (blocked, Cloggy), prudérní (prudish), nudný (boring, dreary, dull, humdrum, jejune, prosy, slow, tedious, tiresome), nevìtraný (close), dusný (close, muggy, sticky, stifling, sultry), afektovaný (affected, camp, genteel, mannered, mincing, minikin, stilted, studied, theatrical, unnatural). (various references)

Dutch

bedompt (airless, close, frowsy). (various references)

Esperanto

malfreŝaera (close, frowsty). (various references)

Farsi 

مغرور (Bigheaded, Haughty, Jaunty, Overbearing, Presumptuous, Proud, Snob, Snobbish, Supercilious, Swagger, Uppish, Vain), محافظه کار, لجوج (Dogged, Dour, Headstrong, Intractable, Obdurate, Obstinate, Obstreperous, Pertinacious, Set, Stickler, Stubborn), خفه (Muggy, Pokey, Sultry), اوقات تلخ (Angry, Glum, Indignant), دلتنگ کننده (Dismal, Dreary), بداخم (Cantankerous, Sulky). (various references)

Finnish

ummehtunut (close, musty, stale). (various references)

French

renfrogné, renfermé, mal ventilé, mal aéré, ennuyeux (stodgy), crâneur (strait laced), bouché (stopped, stoppered, stupid). (various references)

German

stickig (airless, close, humid, oppressive, sticky, stiffling, stifling, stuffily, sultry). (various references)

Greek 

μεγαλομανήσ (megalomaniac), μουτρωμένοσ (disaffected, sulky), πνικτικόσ, πνιγηρόσ (frowsty, fuggy, sweltering, sweltery), πνιγερόσ (frowsty, muggy), φαντασμένοσ (bumptious, cocky, conceited, coxcomb, hoity toity, jackanapes, ladida, opinionated, priggish, self-conceited, self-important, smug, snobbish, snooty, stuck up, stuffed shirt), αποπνικτικός (sultry), αποπληκτικόσ (apoplectic). (various references)

Hebrew 

מח� יק (stifling, sultry), צר אפק (hidebound, insular, narrow minded, provincial, sectarian, small minded). (various references)

Hungarian

dohos (damp, frouzy, frowzy, fusty, moldy, mouldy, musty), zabos (to be hacked off), fülledt (frowsty, frowzy, muggy, sultry, sweaty), begyöpösödött, áporodott (airless, frouzy, frowsty, frowsy, frowzy, fuggy, fusty, stale, vapid). (various references)

Indonesian

sesak (crowded, muggy), pengap (musty). (various references)

Italian

senz'aria, ottuso (blunt, dense, dolt, dull, fatwitted, logy, muffled, obtuse, pointless, slow, slow witted, thick, witless), muffaticcio (smelly, sniffy, unventilated), chiuso (close, closed, enclosed, exclusive, pen, shut, through), arretrato (arrear, arrearage, arrears, back, backlock, backward, backwardly, behindhand, outstanding, residue, under developed, underdeveloped), antiquato (antiquated, bygone, obsolescent, obsolete, old fashioned, oldfangled, outdated, outmoded, quaint, rusty, Square, superannuated). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

気の詰まる , み使い (angel, be impatient, bushy, conspicuously, crunch, giant flying squirrel, incomprehensible muttering, irresistibly, itch, itchy, make good use of, make the most of, morose, munch, nausea, offended, queasy, ragged, rugged, shaggy, soy sauce, suddenly, sullen, surge of anger, talking in sleep, to be fretful, to be in a spleen, to be in a temper, to be in ill humour, to be irritated, to be vexed, to become angry or sullen, to become serious, to blow, to feel irritated, to feel offended, to feel sick, to fret, to have the appearance of ~, to jerk off, to masturbate, to show signs of ~, to take somethingseriously, woman's desire). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きのつまる, む�"む�" (woman's desire). (various references)

Korean 

통�'�이 나쁜. (various references)

Manx

plooghaneagh (stifling, suffocating), peeaghanagh (scrapy). (various references)

Pig Latin

uffystay.(various references)

Portuguese

bofado, abafado (airless, anxious, busy, choky, close, fuggy, fusty, suffocant, suffocating, sultry, thick), abafadiço (stifling). (various references)

Romanian

sufocant (airless, choking, sticky, stifling, suffocating, sultry), stricat (addle, bad, broken, broken down, carrion, close, corrupt, corrupted, dead, decayed, defaced, depraved, deteriorated, dilapidated, disabled, diseased, dissolute, foul, fusty, graceless, immoral, injured, loose, meretricious, niffy, out of order, perverse, polluted, rakehelly, rotten, spoilt, tainted, vicious, vitiated), stãtut (aged, close, dead, flat, frowzy, musty, sour, stale), neventilat, greu (annoying, arduous, awkward, burden, burdensome, busy, clumsy, dangerously, difficult, difficulty, fatiguing, gravely, grievous, hard, hardly, heavily, heavy, inconvenient, labored, laborious, laboured, leaden, lot, massive, massy, near, onerous, oppressive, painful, parlous, precarious, punitive, reluctantly, scarcely, seriously, severe, solid, stiff, stodgy, stolid, strenuous, ticklish, toilful, tough, troublesome, trying, uneasy, uphill, wearisome, weary, weight, weighty), cu aer greu, încruntat (frowning, glum, glumly, rugged, sullen), închis (black, cagey, close, close-mouthed, coop, covered, dark, deep, deeply, dun, involved, pent, red-hot, sad, shut, sullen), înãbuşitor (airless, choking, oppressive, stifling). (various references)

Russian 

спертый (close, frowst, frowsty, frowzy, fuggy, muggy, pockety), щепетильный (punctilious, scrupulous, squeamish), душный;забитый, душный (close, pockety, smothery, sticky, stifling, sultry, sweltering). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sparan (frowsty, muggy, sultry, sweltering), zagušljiv (asphyxiant, fuggy, reeky, suffocating), uštogljen, dosadan (acerbate, annoying, boring, bothersome, drear, dreary, grinding, humdrum, incommodious, long-spun, pain in the neck, pesky, poky, repetitious, slow, stodgy, teasing, tedious, tiresome, undiverted, vexatious). (various references)

Spanish

mal ventilado (airless). (various references)

Swedish

kvav (airless, close, frowsty, frowsy, frowzy, muggy, sultry), inskränkt (cramped, hidebound, illiberal, incapacious, insular, limited, narrow minded, narrow-minded, one-idea'd, one-ideaed, parochial). (various references)

Thai

อบอ้าว, ซึ่งอยู่ในกรอบประเพ�"ี, คั�"จมูก. (various references)

Turkish

sıkıcı (arid, bald, boring, burdensome, constringent, cut and dried, damnable, dead alive, disconcerting, ditch water, ditchwater, drab, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, gaunt, gloomy, grave, grotty, humdrum, inanimate, insipid, irksome, oppressive, poky, ponderous, prose, prosy, slow, sluggish, soul-destroying, soulless, stodgy, tedious, tiresome, trying, uncongenial, unexeciting, unpleasant, unreadable, unsensational, vapid, waste, watery, wearisome), tutucu (conservative, dyed in the wool, fanatical, fuddy-duddy, hidebound, puritan, puritanical, sectarian, square-toed, stick in the mud, strait laced, unprogressive, uptight, wowser), tıkanmış (choked, engorged, foul, jammed, jammed with, stuffed), tıkalı (blocked, bunged up, choked up, engorged, plugged, stuffed), mutaassıp (bigoted, fanatical, strait laced, zealot), kibirli (arrogant, as proud as lucifer, assuming, bumptious, cavalier, conceited, consequential, disdainful, haughty, high-flown, hoity toity, holier-than-thou, hubristic, important, lofty, lordly, overweening, pontifical, proud, Sniffy, snooty, stiff necked, stuck up, supercilious, superior, uppish, uppity, upstage, vain), kendini beğenmiş (arrogant, assuming, bighead, bigheaded, bumptious, cavalier, chesty, cocky, conceited, egotistical, haughty, high hat, high-flown, high-flying, hoity toity, hoity-toity, holier-than-thou, important, insufferable, jackanapes, jumped-up, mugwump, overweening, pompous, pretentious, prig, priggish, self sufficient, self-important, self-opinionated, self-righteous, smug, Sniffy, snooty, snotty, stuck up, stuffed shirt, supercilious, swelled head, swollen-headed, taffy-nosed, toffee-nosed, toffy-nosed, uppish, uppity, upstage, vain), küs (offended), küf kokulu (dank, frowsty, frowzy, fusty, musty, nosey, nosy, smelling moldy, smelling mouldy), havasız (airless, frowsty, fuggy, unaired), dargın (angry with, cross, displeased, huffish, huffy, injured, offended, resentful, vexed, wroth), bunaltıcı (close, depressive, mind-bending, muggy, oppressive, stupefying, suffocating, sweltering, sweltry), boğucu (asphyxiant, choking, choky, stifling, suffocating, sultry), basık (flattened, frowsty, frowzy, low, overcast, receding), alıngan (easily offended, edgy, fragile, irritable, pettish, petulant, sensitive, sore, squeamish, susceptible, susceptive, swift to take offence, techy, tender, testy, tetchy, thin skin, ticklish, tickly, touchy, umbrageous). (various references)

Turkmen 

petiю (sultry), kapas (close). (various references)

Ukrainian

із закладеним носом, вузький (confined, cramp, limited, narrow, one track, one-ideaed, petty, small minded, suburban), нудний (arid, barren, dead alive, depressing, heartbreaking, humdrum, insipid, irksome, long winded, matter of fact, monotonous, prolix, prosaic, prosy, repetitious, soggy, stodgy, stupid, tedious, weariful, wearying, workaday), душний (airless, choky, fuggy, pockety, smothery, stifling). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thiếu không khí. (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "stuffy": unstuffy. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Stuffy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: estufa, sauff, staffie, stiffy, stuf, stufe, suffi, tuffy. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: fusty, stuff, tuffs.

-2 letters: tuff.

-3 letters: sty, uts.

-4 letters: us, ut.

+2 letters: dyestuff, stuffily, unstuffy.

+3 letters: dyestuffs.

+5 letters: diffusivity.