fuddy-duddy
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He’s a fuddy-duddy, and he only makes it worse his habit of making bad jokes and then reacting petulantly when people don’t laugh at them.
From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2026
Richard Martin says: "It was the 60s, the government wanted to be modern and thrusting, it wanted to get rid of old fuddy-duddy stuff."
From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2023
Carrie is now the “cisgender woman” on a podcast whose younger co-hosts make her feel like a fuddy-duddy.
From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2021
Dream movie moment: Cora, who sometimes seems a few scones short of a tea tray, wises up and leaves fuddy-duddy Robert for a dashing London financier played by Hugh Grant.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 10, 2019
Peacock But, I don't propose to marry my daughter to some old fuddy-duddy.
From La Tontine by Alain René Le Sage
We tend to think of people from long ago as credulous, unsophisticated fuddy-duddies.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 13, 2021
For self-consciously “edgy” believers, there’s Bad Christian, in which a pastor and two musicians razz each other and blast the fuddy-duddies who don’t get it.
From Slate ● Dec. 14, 2014
English Heritage objected, but who cared about the complaints of culturally conservative fuddy-duddies?
From The Guardian ● Aug. 19, 2011
Judging from appearances, you might peg Mr. Youn as a comic bass, made to order for fuddy-duddies, blusterers, put-upon servants and elderly dupes.
From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2011
He talks William the Conqueror and all those old fuddy-duddies by the yard, but he can't make me see the use of them, and you can't.
From Three Margarets by Etheldred B. (Etheldred Breeze) Barry
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