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stodg·y

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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.

[Origin: 1815–25; stodge + -y¹

]

—Related forms

stodg·i·ly, adverb

stodg·i·ness, noun

—Synonyms 1. tiresome, stuffy, prosaic.

—Antonyms 1. lively, exciting.

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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.
Indigestible and starchy; heavy: stodgy food.
Solidly built; stocky.

[From stodge, thick filling food, from stodge, to cram.]

stodg'i·ly adv., stodg'i·ness n.

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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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stodgy
adjective
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"

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ˈstodgy1 adjective

(of meals etc) consisting of stodge
Example: stodgy food

Arabic:	مُكَوَّن من طَعام ثَقيل وَصَلْب
Chinese (Simplified):	油腻的
Chinese (Traditional):	油膩的
Czech:	těžký
Danish:	tung
Dutch:	zwaar
Estonian:	rammus
Finnish:	raskas, rasvainen
French:	lourd
German:	schwerverdaulich
Greek:	δύσπεπτος, βαρύς
Hungarian:	laktató
Icelandic:	þungmeltur, þungur
Indonesian:	mengandung makanan keras
Italian:	pesante, indigesto

Japanese:	もたれる
Korean:	기름진
Latvian:	smags; sātīgs
Lithuanian:	sunkus, sotus
Norwegian:	tung, massiv
Polish:	ciężkostrawny
Portuguese (Brazil):	pesado
Portuguese (Portugal):	indigesto
Romanian:	greu de digerat
Russian:	тяжёлый
Slovak:	ťažký, nestráviteľný
Slovenian:	težek
Spanish:	indigesto
Swedish:	tung, bastant, mäktig
Turkish:	ağır

ˈstodgy2 adjective

(of people, books etc) dull; not lively

Arabic:	باهِت، غَيْر حَيَوي، غَيْر مُمْتِع
Chinese (Simplified):	迟钝的
Chinese (Traditional):	遲鈍的
Czech:	nezáživný
Danish:	kedelig
Dutch:	saai
Estonian:	igav
Finnish:	tylsä
French:	sans imagination
German:	schwerfällig
Greek:	βαρύς, βαρετός
Hungarian:	nehézkes
Icelandic:	andlaus, dauflegur
Indonesian:	tidak menarik
Italian:	noioso, tedioso

Japanese:	退屈な
Korean:	지루한, 답답한
Latvian:	garlaicīgs
Lithuanian:	nuobodus
Norwegian:	kjedelig, dorsk, dau
Polish:	ciężkostrawny
Portuguese (Brazil):	pesado, enfadonho
Portuguese (Portugal):	enfadonho
Romanian:	fără imaginaţie
Russian:	тяжеловесный
Slovak:	nezáživný
Slovenian:	dolgočasen
Spanish:	aburrido, pesado
Swedish:	tråkig, tung
Turkish:	sıkıcı