stick-in-the-mud

[ stik-in-thuh-muhd ]

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noun

someone who avoids new activities, ideas, or attitudes; old fogy.

Origin of stick-in-the-mud

First recorded in 1725–35

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How to use stick-in-the-mud in a sentence

To tell the truth, my third share of the old stick-in-the-mud is gone.
An Old Man's Love | Anthony Trollope
Sotto voce he remarked to Scraggs: "I see him slippin' a three hundred dollar hawser, eh, Scraggsy, old stick-in-the-mud?"
Captain Scraggs | Peter B. Kyne
I suppose you didn't hear the news, you are such an old stick-in-the-mud.
The Book of the Bush | George Dunderdale
Now that's just the kind of fine old crusted pig-headed Conservativism that's kept this the stick-in-the-mud Country it is!
In Brief Authority | F. Anstey
"They begun to call us heroes an' old stick-in-the-mud just about the same time," resumed Stover, with a chuckle.
A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches | Sarah Orne Jewett

British Dictionary definitions for stick-in-the-mud

stick-in-the-mud

noun

informal a staid or predictably conservative person who lacks initiative or imagination

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