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/ˈfʌdiˌdʌdi/ · noun
(US, informal) An old-fashioned, persnickety or ineffective person..
My grandma is a fuddy-duddy when it comes to keeping her house clean.
Kingsolver lives by the tenets of her public-spirited fictional characters, whom she sculpts with a keen eye for individuality, e.g. Nannie Land Rawley, a seventy-something orchardist who shocks a fuddy-duddy male neighbor by wearing shorts, […]
Use fuddy-duddy when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Fuddy-duddy means (US, informal) An old-fashioned, persnickety or ineffective person..
Common synonyms include stuffed shirt.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
My grandma is a fuddy-duddy when it comes to keeping her house clean.
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