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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. someone who moves slowly;
- Example: "in England they call a slowpoke a slowcoach"
[syn: plodder, slowpoke, stick-in-the-mud, slowcoach]

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned;
- Example: "moss-grown ideas about family life"
[syn: fogyish, moss-grown, mossy, stick-in-the-mud(p), stodgy]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

stick-in-the-mud
    adj 1: (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned; "moss-
           grown ideas about family life" [syn: fogyish, moss-
           grown, mossy, stick-in-the-mud(p), stodgy]
    n 1: someone who moves slowly; "in England they call a slowpoke
         a slowcoach" [syn: plodder, slowpoke, stick-in-the-
         mud, slowcoach]