stick-in-the-mud
/ˈstɪkɪnðəˌmʌd
/noun informal
A person who is dull and unadventurous and who resists change: they see many of their colleagues as stick-in-the-muds and sentimental neanderthals [as modifier]: the more stick-in-the-mud members objected to the name...
- Every conservationist is in danger of being labelled reactionary, a stick-in-the-mud, backward-looking.
- And then there are the old stick-in-the-muds who come up with the most interesting objections to having their course info online.
- But it's the stick-in-the-muds who become increasingly irritated and bewildered about everything around them.
Synonyms
(old) fogey, conservative, museum piece, fossil, dinosaur, troglodyte
informal fuddy-duddy, square, back number, stuffed shirt
North American informal sobersides
- roll (or throw) of the dice
- roll-out
- rollover
- rollover bar
- rollover contract
- rollover contribution
- rollover credit
- rollover provision
- rollover relief
- rolloway
- roll plane
- roll-produced
- roll rate
- Rolls Buildings
- roll scale
- Rolls Chapel
- Rolls, Charles Stewart
- Rolls Court
- Rolls edition
- Rolls House
- roll shutter
- roll something back
- roll something out
- roll something over
- roll something up