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fuddy-duddier

fuddy-duddier is the comparative form of fuddy-duddy.

Meaning of fuddy-duddy

Adjective

fuddy-duddy (comparative fuddy-duddier, superlative fuddy-duddiest)

  1. (US, informal) Old-fashioned and persnickety or ineffective.
    • Kingsolver lives by the tenets of her public-spirited fictional characters, whom she sculpts with a keen eye for individuality, e.g. Nannie Land Rawley, a seventy-something orchardist who shocks a fuddy-duddy male neighbor by wearing shorts, […]2015, Mary Ellen Snodgrass, Barbara Kingsolver: A Literary Companion, McFarland, →ISBN, page 4

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Questions about fuddy-duddier

What is fuddy-duddier the comparative form of?
Fuddy-duddier is the comparative form of fuddy-duddy.

Words near fuddy-duddier in the dictionary

  1. fuddling cup
  2. fuddling cups
  3. fuddlings
  4. fudds
  5. fuddy-duddery
  6. fuddy-duddier
  7. fuddy-duddies
  8. fuddy-duddiest
  9. fuddy-duddily
  10. fuddy-duddy
  11. fuddy-duddyism

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