fuddy-duddy in English

noun

1

a person who is old-fashioned and fussy.

he probably thinks I'm an old fuddy-duddy

synonyms: (old) fogey, conservative, traditionalist, conformist, fossil, dinosaur, troglodyte, mossback, museum piece, stick-in-the-mud, square, stuffed shirt, dodo

noun

(old) fogey, conservative, traditionalist, conformist, fossil, dinosaur, troglodyte, mossback, museum piece, stick-in-the-mud, square, stuffed shirt, dodo

Use "fuddy-duddy" in a sentence

1. You and your fuddy-duddy ideas!

2. You're such an old fuddy-duddy!

3. Yeats, you old fuddy-duddy.

4. Professor Jones is an old fuddy-duddy.

5. That dress makes you look like such a fuddy-duddy.

6. Stephen loves pop culture, and not being seen as a fuddy-duddy.

7. Stop being a fuddy-duddy any more, always dwelling on the past just means nothing!

8. Uncle Ernest's a bit of an old fuddy-duddy , he still believes women shouldn't smoke.

9. They think I'm an old fuddy-duddy because I don't approve of tattoos.

10. Tony Blair and Gordon Brown talked excitedly about "transforming" Whitehall and its fuddy-duddy ways.

11. EXAMPLE: The boss was an old fuddy-duddy who did not allow dancing at company parties.

12. But to criticize Mr Hall's production as an exercise in fuddy-duddy Shakespeare is beside the point.

13. Beatlemania had arrived, and everywhere a gale of self-induced collective hysteria blew away the leaves of fuddy-duddy Britain.

14. No doubt you will merely accuse me of being an old fuddy-duddy trying to stop young people having fun.

15. He doesn't use Twitter or Facebook ("I suppose I'm a bit of a fuddy-duddy") but his day revolves around breaking news, live business channels and his new iPad