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stodgy

adj
/ˈstɒ.d͡ʒi/UK

Etymology

Unknown, but possibly from stodge (“to stuff”), from stog, or a blend of stuffy + podgy.

Definitions

  1. Dull, old-fashioned.

    • I gave up trying to get that stodgy club to try anything new.
    • Safer! Good lord! what could you have safer than a stodgy second-rate boarding-house in Hapsburg Square? The place drones respectability.

  2. Having a thick, semi-solid consistency

    Having a thick, semi-solid consistency; glutinous; heavy on the stomach.

    • “. . . Why! Why! Why is the middle-class so stodgy—so utterly without a sense of humour! My dear, it's only by a fluke that I am here at all—Norman being the protective fluke.”

  3. Badly put together.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA