starchy
English
adj
Definitions
- Of or pertaining to starch.
- Containing starch.
- Having the quality of fabric starch as applied to fabric; stiff, hard; starched.
- Having a starched personality; stiffly formal.
Etymology
Suffix from English starch.
Origin
English
starch
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- clearstarch English
- cornstarch English
- destarch English
- distarch English
- nitrostarch English
- non-starchy English
- nonstarch English
- nonstarchy English
- overstarch English
- pentastarch English
- pseudostarchy English
- starch English
- starchable English
- starcher English
- starchily English
- starchiness English
- starchless English
- starchlike English
- starchly English
- starchness English
- starchwort English
- tetrastarch English
- unstarch English
- starche Middle English