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}]

stiffy

({University of Lowell}, Massachusetts) A

3.5-inch {microfloppy}, so called because their jackets are

more rigid than those of the 5.25-inch and the (obsolete)

8-inch {floppy disk}. Elsewhere this might be called a

"firmy".

[{Jargon File}]

(1994-11-03)