duddy
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of duddy
Example Sentences
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“What could be more fuddy duddy and out of step than the seascape?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2025
Frasier could get a fuddy duddy Gilbert and Sullivan patter number.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 9, 2020
Another way she's about the past - an old fuddy duddy.
From New York Times ● Sep. 20, 2016
The trio first met at high school, where Madge first fell for the old "fuddy duddy" Harold, although preferred the more roguish Lou.
From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2015
But it was no more like the true play of Shakespeare the poet, according to their account, than a duddy betheral, set up to fright the sparrows from the peas, is like a living gentleman.
From The Annals of the Parish; or, the chronicle of Dalmailing during the ministry of the Rev. Micah Balwhidder by John Galt
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