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starched

verb

Definitions

  1. simple past and past participle of starch

  2. Of a garment

    Of a garment: having had starch applied.

    • And while his signature starched collar and fingerless gloves are yet to make an appearance, his looks are already topped off with another of his soon-to-be trademarks: a pair of dark aviator sunglasses.

  3. Stiff, formal, rigid

    Stiff, formal, rigid; prim and proper.

    • Does the Gospel any where prescribe a starched squeezed Countenance, a stiff formal Gait, a Singularity of Manners and Habit, or any affected Modes of Speech, different from the reasonable Part of Mankind?

The neighborhood

Derived

nonstarched, starchedly, starchedness, unstarched

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at starched. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01starched02starch03potatoes04potato05starchy

A definitional loop anchored at starched. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at starched

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA