stodgy

stodgy
adj
1. dull, dull as dishwater, uninteresting, boring, boresome, tedious, tiresome, wearisome, dreary, dry, dry-as-dust, Sl. dead, Sl. deadly; flat, bland, insipid, vapid, jejune, Sl. for the birds, Sl. nothing, Sl. blah; ponderous, elephantine; stiff, wooden; prosaic, commonplace, humdrum, monotonous, uneventful.
2.(all of food) heavy, dense, thick, indigestible.
3. stocky. See stocky.
4. old-fashioned, old-fogyish, stuffy, behind the times, Inf. fuddy-duddy, Sl. out of it.
5. awkward, clumsy, cloddish, clodhopping, loutish, oafish, lumpish, lumpen; graceless, inelegant, like a bull in a china shop.

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  • Stodgy — Stodg y, a. Wet. [Prov. Eng.] G. Eliot. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • stodgy — index lifeless (dull), pedestrian Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • stodgy — 1823, of a thick, semi solid consistency, from stodge to stuff (1670s), of unknown origin, perhaps somehow imitative. Meaning dull, heavy developed by 1874 from noun sense of stodge applied to food (1825) …   Etymology dictionary

  • stodgy — *dull, humdrum, dreary, monotonous, pedestrian Analogous words: *heavy, weighty, ponderous: *irksome, tedious, wearisome, tiresome, boring: stuffy, straitlaced, prudish (see PRIM) …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • stodgy — [adj] dull, stuffy banausic, boring, dim, dreary, formal, heavy, labored, monotonous, pedantic, pedestrian, plodding, ponderous, staid, tedious, turgid, unexciting, unimaginative, uninspired, uninteresting, weighty; concepts 401,404 Ant.… …   New thesaurus

  • stodgy — [stä′jē] adj. stodgier, stodgiest [< STODGE + Y2] 1. heavy and unpalatable: said of food 2. heavily built; bulky and slow in movement 3. dull; tedious; uninteresting 4. drab, unfashionable …   English World dictionary

  • stodgy — [[t]stɒ̱ʤi[/t]] stodgier, stodgiest 1) ADJ GRADED: usu ADJ n Stodgy food is very solid and heavy. It makes you feel very full, and is difficult to digest. He was disgusted with the stodgy pizzas on sale in London. 2) ADJ GRADED: usu ADJ n… …   English dictionary

  • stodgy — adjective (stodgier; est) Date: 1854 1. having a rich filling quality ; heavy < stodgy bread > 2. moving in a slow plodding way especially as a result of physical bulkiness 3. boring, dull < out on a peaceful rather stodgy Sunday boat trip Edna… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • stodgy — stodgily, adv. stodginess, n. /stoj ee/, adj., stodgier, stodgiest. 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… …   Universalium

  • stodgy — stodg|y [ˈstɔdʒi US ˈsta: ] adj 1.) if someone or something is stodgy, they are boring and formal or old fashioned used to show disapproval ▪ a stodgy play 2.) BrE stodgy food is heavy and makes you feel full very quickly used to show disapproval …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • stodgy — adjective 1 stodgy food is heavy and makes you feel full very quickly 2 BrE informal stodgy writing is dull and difficult to read 3 a stodgy person is dull and behaves rather formally stodginess noun (U) …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

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