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Stick-in-the-mud   /stɪk-ɪn-ðə-məd/   Listen
Stick-in-the-mud

adjective
1.
(used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned.  Synonyms: fogyish, moss-grown, mossy, stodgy.






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"Stick-in-the-mud" Quotes from Famous Books



... this charming rosebud of a girl going to marry Eustace Medlicott—insufferable, conceited prig, I remember him at Oxford," the cousin was musing to himself. "Lord Carford is an old stick-in-the-mud, or he would have prevented that. She is his own niece, and one can see by her frock that the poor child ...
— The Point of View • Elinor Glyn

... stick-in-the-mud. Don't sit there, doubled up like a government mule," he laughed. (The army lingo still showed itself once in a while in Fred's speech.) "Help me get this room ready or I'll whale you with this," and he waved one end of a trace over his head. "If the fellows are coming they'll be here ...
— The Fortunes of Oliver Horn • F. Hopkinson Smith

... Stick-in-the-mud! [He has arrived without appearance of design beneath the tree where the CAT is lying, and asks rapidly, under breath.] ...
— Chantecler - Play in Four Acts • Edmond Rostand



Words linked to "Stick-in-the-mud" :   trailer, drone, unfashionable, lagger, poke, laggard, unstylish, dawdler



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