食物裡的澱粉
最直接的一條：粉就在食物裡面。
adjective · B2
Containing a lot of starch. Starch is the white food substance in things like rice, bread, potatoes and pasta, which gives you energy, makes food thick, and fills you up quickly.
澱粉多的
核心畫面
One way to picture starchy: think of a white powder. Stirred into food, it makes soup thick and fills you up fast. Brushed onto cloth and dried, it makes a shirt flat, smooth and hard, so the collar will not bend. The word walks along that one picture: food that holds a lot of the powder, cloth that has been treated with it, and finally a person who behaves like that cloth — neat, correct, and impossible to bend.
可以想成一種白白的粉。拌進食物裡，湯會變稠，人也容易飽；抹到布上曬乾，襯衫就變得平整、硬挺，領子彎都彎不下來。sta…更多收起
可以想成一種白白的粉。拌進食物裡，湯會變稠，人也容易飽；抹到布上曬乾，襯衫就變得平整、硬挺，領子彎都彎不下來。starchy 的幾個意思就沿著這張圖走：食物裡含著這種粉、布被這種粉弄硬、最後連人的舉止也「像上了漿一樣」——整齊、規矩，但硬得放不開。From the word’s history
Wiktionary gives the word as starch + -y, that is, having starch in or on it. That simple shape is what lets one word cover food, cloth and manner.
Wiktionary 記的是 starch 加上 -y，也就是「有澱粉／有漿的」。字的結構這麼直白，所以食物、布料、舉止三個方向都能共用同一個字。
packet Wiktionary etymology_text for starchy (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1270632949:12277): From starch + -y.
Two branches
上了漿的硬挺
同一種粉換個地方用：不是拌進食物，而是抹在布上，於是重點從「稠」變成「硬」。
adjective · C1
Stiff and hard to the touch, the way cloth feels after starch has been put on it.
上漿硬挺的