stodgy

Adjective

WordNet 3.0

Adjective (3)

  1. heavy and starchy and hard to digest“stodgy food”“a stodgy pudding served up when everyone was already full”
  2. (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned“moss-grown ideas about family life”Synonyms: fogyishmoss-grownmossystick-in-the-mud(p)
  3. excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull“why is the middle class so stodgy, so utterly without a sense of humor?”“a stodgy dinner party”Synonyms: stuffy
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Stodgy \Stodg"y\, a. Wet. [Prov. Eng.] --G. Eliot. [1913 Webster] Stoechiology
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