starchy

English

Etymology

From starch +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

starchy (comparative starchier or more starchy, superlative starchiest or most starchy)

1. Of or pertaining to starch.
2. Containing starch.
3. Having the quality of fabric starch as applied to fabric; stiff, hard; starched.
   • 1942, Emily Carr, “Sunday”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC:

     Beds were made, the dinner-table set, and then we got into our very starchiest and most uncomfortable clothes for church.

4. Having a starched personality; stiffly formal.

Derived terms

• non-starchy
• starchily
• starchiness

Related terms

• cornstarchy

Translations

of or pertaining to starch

• Finnish: tärkkelys- (fi)
• Ido: fekulala
• Slovak: škrobový (sk)

containing starch

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 有淀粉的 (yǒu diànfěn de)

• Finnish: tärkkelyspitoinen
• Ido: fekuloza (io)
• Malay: berkanji
• Spanish: feculento (es), amiláceo (es)

hardened with starch

• Bulgarian: колосан (bg) (kolosan)
• Finnish: tärkätty (fi)
• Russian: накрахмаленный (ru) m (nakraxmalennyj), накрахмаленная (ru) f (nakraxmalennaja)
• Slovak: škrobený
• Spanish: almidonado (es)

of personality: starched

• Bulgarian: скован (bg) (skovan)
• Finnish: jäykkä (fi), muodollinen (fi)
• Slovak: škrobený

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Translations to be checked

• Spanish: acartonado (es)