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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Stuffy \Stuff"y\, a.
     1. Stout; mettlesome; resolute. [Scot.] --Jamieson.
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     2. Angry and obstinate; sulky. [U. S.]
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     3. Ill-ventilated; close.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  stuffy
       adj 1: lacking fresh air; "a dusty airless attic"; "the dreadfully
              close atmosphere"; "hot and stuffy and the air was
              blue with smoke" [syn: {airless}, {close}, {unaired}]
       2: excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull;
          "why is the middle class so stodgy, so utterly without a
          sense of humor?"; "a stodgy dinner party" [syn: {stodgy}]
       [also: {stuffiest}, {stuffier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  255 Moby Thesaurus words for "stuffy":
     Quakerish, Victorian, accordant, airless, anal, arid, arrogant,
     authoritarian, bad, bad-smelling, barren, bigot, bigoted, blah,
     blank, bloated, bloodless, bombastic, borne, bourgeois, breathless,
     breezeless, cantankerous, censorious, characterless, close, closed,
     cold, colorless, compulsive, concordant, conformist, constricted,
     contrary, conventional, corresponding, cramped, creedbound,
     cross-grained, dead, deaf, deaf to reason, demure, difficult,
     dismal, draggy, drearisome, dreary, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty,
     earthbound, effete, elephantine, empty, etiolated, fade, fanatical,
     fecal, fetid, flat, flatulent, fogyish, formal, formalistic, foul,
     froward, frowsty, frowsy, frowy, frowzy, fuddy-duddy, fulsome,
     funky, fusty, gamy, gassy, genteel, grandiloquent, graveolent,
     harmonious, heavy, hidebound, high, ho-hum, hollow, humdrum, humid,
     ill-smelling, ill-ventilated, illiberal, important, in accord,
     in keeping, in line, in step, inane, inexcitable, infecund,
     infertile, inflated, insipid, insular, irascible, jejune, kosher,
     leaden, lifeless, literal, little, little-minded, low-spirited,
     magisterial, malodorous, mean, mean-minded, mean-spirited,
     mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, mid-Victorian, mildewed, mildewy,
     moldy, mouldy, muggy, mundane, musty, narrow, narrow-hearted,
     narrow-minded, narrow-souled, narrow-spirited, nearsighted,
     nidorous, noisome, noxious, odorous, offensive, old-fashioned,
     old-fogy, old-fogyish, old-maidish, olid, oppressive, ornery,
     orthodox, overmodest, pale, pallid, parochial, pedantic,
     pedestrian, perverse, petty, plastic, plodding, pointless, poky,
     pompous, ponderous, pontifical, precisianistic, priggish, prim,
     prissy, proper, prosaic, prosing, prosy, provincial, prudish,
     puffy, purblind, puritanical, putrid, rancid, rank,
     ravaged with age, reasty, reasy, reechy, reeking, reeky, repulsive,
     rigid, rotten, sanctimonious, self-important, senile, shortsighted,
     slow, small, small-minded, smellful, smelling, smelly, smug,
     solemn, spiritless, square, stagnant, staid, stale, stenchy,
     sterile, sticky, stiff, stiff-necked, stifling, stilted, stinking,
     stodgy, stolid, straight, strait-laced, straitlaced, strong,
     suffocating, sulfurous, sulky, sullen, sultry, superficial,
     swollen, tasteless, tedious, thick, traditionalist, tumid, turgid,
     uncatholic, uncharitable, unfanciful, ungenerous, unideal,
     unimaginative, uninspired, uninventive, unliberal, unlively,
     unoriginal, unpoetic, unromantic, unromanticized, unvented,
     unventilated, uptight, vapid, vile, wayward, windless, wooden,
     wrongheaded
  
  

















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