starchy Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective consisting of or containing starch
    • starchy foods
  2. adjective satellite rigidly formal
    buckram; stiff.
    • a starchy manner
    • the letter was stiff and formal
    • his prose has a buckram quality

WordNet


Starch"y adjective
Definitions
  1. Consisting of starch; resembling starch; stiff; precise.

Webster 1913