stuffed shirt
One who is pompous or self-important, especially one who is either officious or punctilious in a position of authority.
"Don't you come the high-and-holy on me. You and your smooth, big, phony stuffed-shirt of a father."
shirt
UK /ʃɜːt/ US /ʃɜɹt/
noun 3verb 1
Definitions
noun
1
An article of clothing that is worn on the upper part of the body, and often has sleeves, either long or short, that cover the arms.
He went to the mall to buy shirts his size.
It can take a while to learn how to iron a shirt properly.
2
An interior lining in a blast furnace.
3
A member of the shirt-wearing team in a shirts and skins game.
verb
1
To cover or clothe with a shirt, or as if with a shirt.
1691, King Arthur, by John Dryden, act II, scene I. Ah! for so many souls, as but this morn / Were clothed with flesh, and warm’d with vital blood / But naked now, or shirted just with air.
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