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fuddy duddy
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | old-fashion person |
| Synonyms: | dotard, dull person, fogy, fussbudget, fusspot, fusspot, fussy person, granny, old fart, old fogy, old fogy, old geezer, old maid, old poop, square, square*, stick-in-the-mud, stick-in-the-mud, stuffed shirt, stuffed shirt |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fussy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | meticulous, particular |
| Synonyms: | careful, choosy, conscientious, conscionable, dainty, difficult, discriminating, exact, exacting, fastidious, finical, finicky, fretful, fuddy-duddy, hard to please, heedful, nit-picking, overfastidious, painstaking, persnickety, picky, picky-picky, punctilious, punctual, querulous, scrupulous, squeamish, stickling |
| Antonyms: | uncritical, undemanding, unfussy |
| Main Entry: | mossback |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | old-fashioned person |
| Synonyms: | conservative, fuddy-duddy, geezer, old fogy, old geezer, square* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | square |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is old-fashioned, conventional |
| Synonyms: | antediluvian, conservative, diehard, fuddy-duddy, reactionary, stick-in-the-mud, traditionalist |
| Main Entry: | stick-in-the-mud |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unadventurous person |
| Synonyms: | antediluvian, conservative, diehard, diehard, fossil, fuddy-duddy, mossback, obstinate person, old fogy, person set in ways, reactionary |
| Antonyms: | adventurer |
| Main Entry: | old maid |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | older unmarried woman |
| Synonyms: | bachelor girl, fuddy-duddy, goody-goody, lone woman, maiden, prig, prude, single woman, spinster, unmarried woman |
| Main Entry: | party pooper |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | someone who spoils others' fun |
| Synonyms: | drip, fuddy-duddy, grinch, grouch, killjoy, malcontent, sourpuss, spoilsport, stick-in-the-mud, wet blanket |
| Antonyms: | celebrator, life of the party, live wire |
| Main Entry: | fogy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | square |
| Synonyms: | dodo, fogey, fossil, fuddy-duddy, old fogey, old fogy, stick-in-the-mud |
| Main Entry: | rightist |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | conservative |
| Synonyms: | Tory, bourgeois, constant, controlled, conventional, die-hard, fearful, firm, fogyish, fuddy-duddy, guarded, hard hat, hidebound, holding to, illiberal, in a rut, inflexible, middle-of-the-road, not extreme, obstinate, old guard, old line, orthodox, quiet, reactionary, redneck, right, right of center, right-wing, sober, stable, steady, timid, traditional, traditionalist, traditionalistic, unchangeable, unchanging, uncreative, undaring, unimaginative, unprogressive, white bread |
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