starchy meaning

• Adjective: starchy (starchier,starchiest)  staa(r)chee
  1. Consisting of or containing starch
     "starchy foods" 
  2. Rigidly formal
     "a starchy manner"
     - stiff, buckram

  Derived forms: starchiest, starchier

  See also: amylaceous, amyloid, amyloidal, farinaceous, formal, starch, starchlike

  Antonym: starchless

  Encyclopedia: Starchy

• 
  [American slang]
  mod. alcohol intoxicated.
  • Man, was he starched!
  • No, he wasn't quite stiff, but he was starched.
  
  
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  [Medicine]
  adj starch·i·er; -est : containing, consisting of, or resembling starch ‹starchy foods›
  

• He has always been rather starchy.
• No one carried a pound of superfluous flesh, in spite of the vast quantities of starchy food.
• By and by he says : " starchy clothes-very
• Level 4 : grains such as starchy foods, rice, wheat, etc
• He's always been rather starchy
• The king s duds was all black, and he did look real swell and starchy
• And satan peeled off the healthful skin and sliced the starchy center into chips and deep-fried them
• Robbins gives a performance that evolves with beautiful clarity from starchy banker to warm and loving friend
• A generation of children is at risk of fatty liver disease because they eat too many starchy foods, new research suggests
• Boston-based researchers, writing in the journal obesity, found mice fed starchy foods developed the disease

• "starchy" meaning in Chinese: adj. (-ier; -iest)1.淀粉(质)的；上过浆的，像浆过的。2.古板的，拘泥的，严格的；〔美国〕严肃...
• "starchy" meaning in Japanese: starchy澱粉質でんぷんしつごわごわ
• "starchy" meaning in Russian: 1) крахмалистый, крахмальный, содержащий крахмал2) чопорны...
• "starchy" meaning in French: adj. riche en féculent; guindé; dur, méticuleux