duddy

American  

[duhd-ee] / ˈdʌd i /

Or duddie

adjective

Scot.

1. ragged; tattered.

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Etymology

Origin of duddy

First recorded in 1715–25; dud(s) + -y ¹

Example Sentences

“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

But there is one musical term that has cropped up in post-millennial parlance that, at the risk of deepening both my fuddy and my duddy, I must dissect.

From Slate • Feb. 4, 2019

Another way she's about the past - an old fuddy duddy.

From New York Times • Sep. 20, 2016

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 Galt, John