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stodgy, a.|ˈstɒdʒɪ|
[f. stodge v. + -y.]
1. a. Of a thick, semi-solid consistency.
1823E. Moor Suffolk Words, Stodjy, thick—clayey—clogsome. Such as a heavy road. 1887Kentish Gloss., Stodgy, thick; glutinous; muddy. ‘The church path's got middlin' stodgy.’
b. Of food, esp. of farinaceous food: Thick, glutinous.
1858Spurdens Suppl. to Forby's Voc. E. Anglia, Stodgy, thick, as porridge: pulmentum crassum. 1866Lond. Rev. 2 June 608/2 A stodgy mass of paste in which potatoes and odds and ends of food have been mixed. a1890R. F. Burton in Isabel Burton Life (1893) I. 74 This cannibal meal was succeeded by stodgy pudding. 1906O. C. Malvery Soul Market ix. 156 The meat was almost raw, the potatoes stodgy.
c. Of food or a meal: Heavy, solid, hard to ‘get through’.
1884Harper's Mag. Oct. 709/2 The stodgy table d'hôte. 1889C. Keene in Life xiii. (1892) 409 It's a stodgy feed—soup, fish, flesh, and fowl, etc.
2. fig. Dull, heavy; wanting in gaiety or brightness.
a. of literary composition, a subject of conversation, etc.
1874L. Troubridge Life amongst Troubridges (1966) 89 We had meant to play Rats and Ferrets, but we had to begin a stodgy game of Old Maid. 1885C. M. Yonge Nuttie's Father i. x. 111 One of the stodgey [sic] old clergymen in books. 1887Longman's Mag. May 107 The most merciless and interminable romance that ever lowered the circulation of a magazine, and then appeared in three stodgy volumes. 1895Jowett in L. A. Tollemache Benjamin Jowett 8, I must make a bargain with you that, when we take a walk together, you don't put more than one of your stodgy questions! 1906‘G. Thorne’ First it was ordained 106 In England, art must be obvious and stodgy before people think it's respectable. 1907Academy 28 Sept. 948 Stodgy sonnets to the moon. 1976J. I. M. Stewart Memorial Service ii. 24 The stodgy lime-streaked effigy of Provost Harbage..is really more congruous with the spirit of the place. 1977National Observer (U.S.) 1 Jan. 5/4 It was a stodgy old company when he came to it as president of the international division. 1977Time 31 Jan. 13/2 Leidigkeit, 38, has brought scandal and notoriety to Bonn's Ermekeil Strasse, formerly a quiet, slightly stodgy row of shops, middle-class town houses and student flats.
b. of a person, ceremony, one's life. Also applied to other objects, activities, etc.
1895Brit. Weekly 28 Mar. 370/1 There are experiences which grave the brow in spite of a man. But, on the other hand, to grow stodgy is no mark of grace. 1904S. Macnaughtan Gift ii. ii. 127 The wedding was a stodgy affair. 1905E. Glyn Viciss. Evangeline 101, I have not felt like writing; these last days have been so stodgy,—sticky I was going to say! Endless infant talk!
c. fig. of a quality.
1894Du Maurier Trilby (1895) 74 It fosters..self-respect, and not a few stodgy practical virtues as well.
d. Applied loosely to music, its performance, interpretation, etc.
1934C. Lambert Music Ho! v. 294 The stodgy and academic imagination of Verklarte Nacht. 1959Times 12 Jan. 12/3 It was surprising that Miss Puppulo was so stodgy in some early miniatures at the start of the programme. 1974Early Music Apr. 81 It is so easy..for four viols to be too stodgy. 1978R. Donington in J. M. Thomson Future of Early Music in Britain 14 The dodge..is to get that massive resonance without sounding in the least thick and opaque and stodgy and Straussian.
3. Of a person: Bulky in figure (usually connoting stiffness and clumsiness in movement).
1854A. E. Baker Northampt. Gloss. s.v., He's a stodgy little man. 1879J. Payn High Spirits (ed. 2) I. 208 He was a stodgy, pursy, plethoric old fellow. 1895Century Mag. Feb. 540 The stodgy plumpness of John Bull.
4. Of things: Bulky, ‘fat’, distended.
1860Geo. Eliot Mill on Fl. i. v, ‘You don't know what I've got in my pockets... ‘No,’ said Maggie. ‘How stodgy they look.’
Hence ˈstodgily adv., ˈstodginess.
1899Pall Mall Gaz. 31 July 4/1 That portion of the reading public which likes its fiction solid even to stodginess. 1904Sat. Rev. 2 Jan. 18/2 Subjects..when handled stodgily are not worth reproducing. |