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" Synonym(s):stodgy, stuffy
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Stodgy \Stodg"y\, a.
Wet. [Prov. Eng.] --G. Eliot.