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stick-in-the-mud
[ stik-in-thuh-muhd ]
noun
- someone who avoids new activities, ideas, or attitudes; old fogy.
stick-in-the-mud
noun
- informal.a staid or predictably conservative person who lacks initiative or imagination
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Word History and Origins
Origin of stick-in-the-mud1
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Example Sentences
To tell the truth, my third share of the old Stick-in-the-Mud is gone.
Sotto voce he remarked to Scraggs: "I see him slippin' a three hundred dollar hawser, eh, Scraggsy, old stick-in-the-mud?"
I suppose you didn't hear the news, you are such an old stick-in-the-mud.
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!
"They begun to call us heroes an' old stick-in-the-mud just about the same time," resumed Stover, with a chuckle.
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