fuddy-duddy
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fuddy-duddy
- /ˈfʌdiˌdʌdi/
Rhymes with -ʌdi
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Unknown. First attested in the US circa 1900.
noun fuddy-duddies · fuddyduddy
- An old-fashioned, persnickety or ineffective person. My grandma is a fuddy-duddy when it comes to keeping her house clean.
adjective fuddy-duddier · fuddy-duddiest · fuddyduddy
- Old-fashioned and persnickety or ineffective. Kingsolver lives by the tenets of her public-spirited fictional characters, whom she sculpts with a keen eye for individuality, e.g. Nannie Land Rawley, a seventy-something orchardist who shocks a fuddy-duddy male neighbor by wearing shorts, […]
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