Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Dull, unimaginative, and commonplace. synonym: dull.
- adjective Old-fashioned and stuffy.
- adjective Indigestible and starchy; heavy.
- adjective Solidly built; stocky.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Dull; stupid; crude; thickheaded: as, a stodgy way of looking at things.
- Heavy; lumpy; distended.
- Crammed together roughly; lumpy; crude and indigestible.
- Wet; miry.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Prov. Eng. Wet.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of food having a thick, semi-solid consistency;
glutinous ; heavy on the stomach. - adjective
dull ,old-fashioned
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull
- adjective heavy and starchy and hard to digest
- adjective (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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"You can find great opportunities in stodgy old-fashioned blue-chip stocks."
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But now, fully entrenched in stodgy-hearted adulthood, I'm more inclined toward The Power of More-Than-One, especially when the goal is to make a significant difference.
Sob Story 2005
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But now, fully entrenched in stodgy-hearted adulthood, I'm more inclined toward The Power of More-Than-One, especially when the goal is to make a significant difference.
Archive 2005-07-01 2005
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It is a known quantity, even if it was known as a stodgy company for a while.
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It is a known quantity, even if it was known as a stodgy company for a while.
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It is by no accident that the British -- whom foreigners delight to call stodgy and slow-witted, -- have produced more high-class poetry than any other nation in the history of the world.
The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century William Lyon Phelps 1904
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He could eat, really eat, if it was part of a game, but he could not stodge just to feel stodgy, which is what most children like better than anything else; the next best thing being to talk about it.
Peter and Wendy F. D. [Illustrator] Bedford 1898
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At all times reverent to more than twenty years of Mario platforming, NSMB Wii never feels tired, repetitive or stodgy, which is something of an achievement unto itself.
Home Theater Forum 2009
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I know I was one, but I suspect that I have grown into the kind of stodgy adult who is going to have a real problem with crackly voices, "fur, where there was no fur before" and any kind of freak-outs that involve violation, destruction of premises or partial nudity.
June 2009 Comments of the Month Tyler 2009
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I know I was one, but I suspect that I have grown into the kind of stodgy adult who is going to have a real problem with crackly voices, "fur, where there was no fur before" and any kind of freak-outs that involve violation, destruction of premises or partial nudity.
World of Warcraft punishment causes kid to lose his shit, abuse remote control Tyler 2009
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