starchy
adjUS /ˈstɑɹt͡ʃi/
Etymology From starch + -y.
1
Of or pertaining to starch.
2
Containing starch.
3
Having the quality of fabric starch as applied to fabric; stiff, hard; starched.
- Beds were made, the dinner-table set, and then we got into our very starchiest and most uncomfortable clothes for church.1942, Emily Carr, “Sunday”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC:
4
Having a starched personality; stiffly formal.
- Derived terms
- nonstarchy, non-starchy, pseudostarchy, starchily, starchiness, unstarchy
- Related terms
- cornstarchy