FUDDY-DUDDY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A conservative who is old-fashioned or dull in attitude or appearance

Example:

you may accuse me of being and old fuddy-duddy trying to stop young people having fun

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("fuddy-duddy" is a kind of...):

conservative; conservativist (a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas)

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)