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- noun Alternative form of
fuddy-duddy .
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Examples
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Describing himself as a "fuddyduddy", he said that modern officers were not smart enough and he "hated fashionable stubble".
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Describing himself as a "fuddyduddy", he said that modern officers were not smart enough and he "hated fashionable stubble".
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The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds, The Kinks, The Animals, The Lovin' Spoonful, The Byrds, et al, they all suddenly sounded a bit quaint and almost fuddyduddy.
Binky Philips: The God Gavin and Erica's Who Album Binky Philips 2012
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Okay, so John McCain is way too much of a boring old eunuchy fuddyduddy for that to ever happen.
Archive 2007-03-01 2007
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While many people focused on Obama's claim that he doesn't know how to use an ipod, that fuddyduddy!
Nice Deb 2010
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I hate to say 'these kids today' ..., not because it makes me sound like an old fuddyduddy, but because it's not the kids 'fault.
Knowledge is Power 2010
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First question: Who's the fuddyduddy on the Treasury copydesk who made the "We can't use leveraged as an adjective" call?
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Call me a fuddyduddy, but I do think society has an obligation to protect the stupid when dealing with their life.
strev commented on the word fuddyduddy
Cleaned up version (for primetime) of Trudeau's, "fuddle duddle"
April 9, 2009