fuddy-duddy

Speech parts

1. fuddy-duddy - Noun

2. fuddy-duddy - Adjective

Meaning

a conservative who is old-fashioned or dull in attitude or appearance

Source: WordNet

Alternative names

fuddy duddy

Synonyms

tory dodo square coot knucklehead frump prude conservative dinosaur reactionary traditionalist conformist fogy ultraconservative stick-in-the-mud
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Antonyms

progressive unconventional in style unorthodox nontraditional

Hypernyms

conservative conservativist

Examples

At the risk of being a fuddy-duddy I don't have a computer; I don't have e-mail; and I really don't need something in my house that I would be sitting in front of for hours. Marian McPartland

you may accuse me of being and old fuddy-duddy trying to stop young people having fun Source: Internet

Americans didn't flock to the suddenly affordable Hydrox; they shunned it as cheap in every sense of the word—the kind of low-budget, fuddy-duddy knockoff favored by penny-pinching grandpas. Source: Internet

Don’t get me wrong, I love glace au chocolat and glace au caramel beurre salé, but I’m no fuddy-duddy, and… Source: Internet

This year's designers are serious about shedding the old fuddy-duddy image, ecause they can't sell them to people with more money than sense (way more money) if they're called fanny packs. Source: Internet

On the other side, he doesn't want to add to his own fuddy-duddy "establishment" image. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

fuddling cup fuddy-duddery fuddy-duddily fuddy-duddyism fuddyduddy fude pen