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stodgy - 4 dictionary results

stodg⋅y

[stoj-ee]
–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.

Origin:
1815–25; stodge + -y 1


stodg⋅i⋅ly, adverb
stodg⋅i⋅ness, noun


1. tiresome, stuffy, prosaic.


1. lively, exciting.
stodg·y   (stŏj'ē)   
adj.   stodg·i·er, stodg·i·est
    1. Dull, unimaginative, and commonplace.
    2. Prim or pompous; stuffy: "Why is the middle-class so stodgy—so utterly without a sense of humor!" (Katherine Mansfield). See Synonyms at dull.
  1. Indigestible and starchy; heavy: stodgy food.
  2. Solidly built; stocky.

[From stodge, thick filling food, from stodge, to cram.]
stodg'i·ly adv., stodg'i·ness n.

Stodgy

Stodg"y\, a. Wet. [Prov. Eng.] --G. Eliot.
Language Translation for : stodgy
Spanish: indigesto,
German: schwerverdaulich,
Japanese: もたれる

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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