STARCHY

PRONUNCIATION: (STAR-chee)

MEANING: adjective:
1. Relating to, containing, or stiffened with starch.
2. Stiff and formal.

ETYMOLOGY: From the use of starch in stiffening cotton and linen in laundering. Earliest documented use: 1633.
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SITARCHY - government by stringed musical instruments playing ragas

ST. ARCHY - how you address a canonized cockroach (according to Mehitabel)

STAR CRY - what a movie idol does, after not winning the Oscar as expected