fuddy-duddy
/ˈfʌdiˌdʌdi/
fuddy-duddy noun: an old-fashioned, persnickety or ineffective person.
Noun
fuddy-duddy (plural fuddy-duddies)
- An old-fashioned, persnickety or ineffective person.
- My grandma is a fuddy-duddy when it comes to keeping her house clean.
Adjective
fuddy-duddy (comparative fuddy-duddier, superlative fuddy-duddiest)
- 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
fuddy-duddy meaning in Urdu and Malayalam
fuddy-duddy in Urdu
- بدمزاج, دقیانوسی, نک چڑھا
fuddy-duddy in Malayalam
- conservative, (old) fogy, traditionalist
- പഴഞ്ചൻ, പഴഞ്ചൻമട്ടുകാരൻ, യാഥാസ്ഥിതികൻ, പഴമക്കാരൻ, പഴഞ്ചൻമനസ്ഥിതിക്കാരൻ, യാഥാസ്ഥിതികചിന്താഗതിക്കാരൻ
Forms of fuddy-duddy
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | fuddy-duddies |
| alternative form | fuddyduddy |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | fuddy-duddier |
| superlative | fuddy-duddiest |
Origin of fuddy-duddy
Unknown. First attested in the US circa 1900.
Words formed from fuddy-duddy
- fuddy-duddery
- fuddy-duddyish
- fuddy-duddyism
- fudd
- fuddy-duddily
Words that rhyme with fuddy-duddy
Questions about fuddy-duddy
- What does fuddy-duddy mean?
- Fuddy-duddy means an old-fashioned, persnickety or ineffective person.
- What is fuddy-duddy in Urdu?
- Fuddy-duddy in Urdu is بدمزاج, دقیانوسی, نک چڑھا. See Fuddy-duddy meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is fuddy-duddy?
- Fuddy-duddy can be a noun or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce fuddy-duddy?
- Fuddy-duddy is pronounced /ˈfʌdiˌdʌdi/.
- What is the plural of fuddy-duddy?
- The plural of fuddy-duddy is fuddy-duddies.
Words near fuddy-duddy in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: fuddy-duddy (page history and authors); fuddy-duddy (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fuddy-duddy (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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