stodg·y
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| 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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adj. stodg·i·er, stodg·i·est
[From stodge, thick filling food, from stodge, to cram.] stodg'i·ly adv., stodg'i·ness n. |
| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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).
| Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper |
| stodgy | |
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| 1. | heavy and starchy and hard to digest; "stodgy food"; "a stodgy pudding served up when everyone was already full" |
| 2. | (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned; "moss-grown ideas about family life" [syn: fogyish] |
| 3. | excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull; "why is the middle class so stodgy, so utterly without a sense of humor?"; "a stodgy dinner party" |
| WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University. |
ˈstodgy1 adjective
(of meals etc) consisting of stodge
Example: stodgy food
ˈstodgy2 adjectiveExample: stodgy food
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(of people, books etc) dull; not lively
See also: stodge
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| Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary, © 2000-2006 K Dictionaries Ltd. |
Stodgy
Stodg"y\, a. Wet. [Prov. Eng.] --G. Eliot.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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