stodgy Meaning, Definition & Usage

1. adjective satellite heavy and starchy and hard to digest
   
   • stodgy food
   • a stodgy pudding served up when everyone was already full
2. adjective satellite (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned
   fogyish; moss-grown; mossy; stick-in-the-mud.
   
   • moss-grown ideas about family life
3. adjective satellite excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull
   stuffy.
   
   • why is the middle class so stodgy, so utterly without a sense of humor?
   • a stodgy dinner party

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