Associations to the word «Starchy»

Wiktionary

STARCHY, adjective. Of or pertaining to starch.
STARCHY, adjective. Containing starch.
STARCHY, adjective. Having the quality of fabric starch as applied to fabric; stiff, hard; starched.
STARCHY, adjective. Having a starched personality; stiffly formal.

Dictionary definition

STARCHY, adjective. Consisting of or containing starch; "starchy foods".
STARCHY, adjective. Rigidly formal; "a starchy manner"; "the letter was stiff and formal"; "his prose has a buckram quality".

Wise words

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
Aldous Huxley