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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

STARCHY, a. Stiff; precise.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: consisting of or containing starch; "starchy foods" [ant: starchless]
2: rigidly formal; "a starchy manner"; "the letter was stiff and formal"; "his prose has a buckram quality" [syn: starchy, stiff, buckram]

Merriam Webster's

adjective (starchier; -est) Date: 1802 1. containing, consisting of, or resembling starch <starchy foods> 2. formal, stiff <a starchy lawyer> • starchily adverb • starchiness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (starchier, starchiest) 1 a of or like starch. b containing much starch. 2 (of a person) precise, prim. Derivatives: starchily adv. starchiness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Starchy Starch"y, a. Consisting of starch; resembling starch; stiff; precise.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(starchier, starchiest) Starchy foods contain a lot of starch. ...starchy and sticky glutinous rices. ADJ

Moby Thesaurus

adhesive, amylaceous, clabbered, clammy, clotted, coagulated, curdled, doughy, firm, gaumy, gelatinous, glairy, gluelike, gluey, glutenous, glutinose, glutinous, gooey, grumous, gumbo, gumbolike, gumlike, gummous, gummy, heavy, inspissated, jelled, jellied, jellylike, mucilaginous, pasty, pokerlike, ramrodlike, renitent, rigid, rodlike, ropy, slabby, slimy, slithery, starched, sticky, stiff, stiff as buckram, stodgy, stringy, syrupy, tacky, taut, tenacious, tense, thick, thickened, tight, tough, tremelloid, tremellose, unrelaxed, virgate, viscid, viscose, viscous