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adjective, stodg·i·er, stodg·i·est.
1.
heavy, dull, or uninteresting; tediously commonplace; boring: a stodgy Victorian novel.
2.
of a thick, semisolid consistency; heavy, as food.
3.
stocky; thick-set.
4.
old-fashioned; unduly formal and traditional: a stodgy old gentleman.
5.
dull; graceless; inelegant: a stodgy business suit.
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Stodginess
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Word Origin & History
stodgy
1823, "of a thick, semi-solid consistency," from stodge "to stuff" (1674), of unknown origin, perhaps somehow imitative. Meaning "dull, heavy" developed by 1874 from noun sense of stodge applied to food (1825).
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