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English Dictionary: stodgy by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
stodgy
adj
  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"
    Synonym(s): fogyish, moss-grown, mossy, stick-in-the-mud(p), stodgy
  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"
    Synonym(s): stodgy, stuffy
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Stodgy \Stodg"y\, a.
      Wet. [Prov. Eng.] --G. Eliot.
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