Staffier vs Stuffier - What's the difference?

As a noun staffier

is (obsolete) an attendant bearing a staff.

(stuffy).

(en noun)

(obsolete) An attendant bearing a staff.

Staffiers on foot. — Hudibras.

(Webster 1913)

(head)

(stuffy)

(er)

Poorly ventilated; partially plugged.

I can't smell very well today – I have a stuffy nose.

Let's go outside – it's getting stuffy in here.

Stout; mettlesome; resolute.

Angry and obstinate; sulky.

Boring, uninteresting, over-formal, pompous, very conventional.

The stuffy professor droned on as the class lost interest.

(stuffies)

(US, Canada, colloquial, often, childish) A stuffed animal or other plush toy.

* stuffily * stuffiness