Hypertext Webster Gateway: "stodgy"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Stodgy \Stodg"y\, a.
Wet. [Prov. Eng.] --G. Eliot.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
stodgy
adj 1: (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned;
"moss-grown ideas about family life" [syn: {fogyish},
{moss-grown}, {mossy}, {stick-in-the-mud(p)}]
2: excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull;
"why is the middle class so stodgy, so utterly without a
sense of humor?"; "a stodgy dinner party" [syn: {stuffy}]
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