• Formal
• High-carb, maybe
• Like legumes
• Like rice and potatoes
• Like some newly laundered shirts
• Like tapioca
• Like taro or sago
• Prim
• Rigidly formal
• Stiff
• Stiff and formal
• Stiff and formal in manner
1. крахмалистый, крахмальный, содержащий крахмал
2. = starched 2
starchy adj AmE sl He wasn't quite stiff, but he was starchy Он не то чтобы напился, но торчал прилично