英语词汇“fuddy-duddy”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	fuddy-duddy
释义	fuddy-duddy I. \ˈfədēˌdədē, ˈfədiˌdədi, ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷\ noun (-es) Etymology: perhaps reduplication of Scots fuddy, fuddie tail of an animal, short-tailed animal, from fud buttocks, tail of an animal + English -y 1. : one who is old-fashioned or ultraconservative : fogy < anybody over thirty has to … ask himself just how much of a fuddy-duddy he really is — Alistair Cooke > 2. : one who is pompous and unimaginative : stuffed shirt < the general impression … that anyone from a colonel up is a frozen-faced fuddy-duddy — Fletcher Pratt > 3. : one who is concerned about trifles : fussbudget < an academic fuddy-duddy counting the semicolons — S.E.Hyman > II. adjective 1. : prim and conservative : fussy < a fuddy-duddy professor in a classroom of rowdy boys — Time > 2. : old-fashioned, outdated < the atom bomb is already fuddy-duddy — Ellery Queen >
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