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fuddy-duddy
noun
a fussy, old-fashioned, narrow-minded person US, 1904- Father is a fuddy duddy! — Haenigsen, Jive’s Like That, 1947
- It was part of his graft to look, dress, and act like a benevolent old fuddy-duddy. — Charles Raven, Underworld Nights, p. 200, 1956
- They’re old fuddy-duddies who think that what was a good salary a hundred years ago — Nat Hiken, Sergeant Bilko, p. 74, 1957
- Britain is still in the grips of some particularly dotty censorship legislation. The fuddy duddies are bound to give in sooner or later[.] — Barry Humphries, Bazza Pulls It Off!, 1971
- Aw, it’s O.K., Alice. Christ, we’re not a couple of old fuddy-duddies. I remember what I was like at Mike’s age. — Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City, p. 263, 1978
- What would an old fuddy-duddy like me know about the fashions of young women? — Robert Campbell, Sweet La-La Land, p. 221, 1990
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