Definition of "fuddy-duddy" [fuddy-duddy]

• An old-fashioned, fussy person. (noun)

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• "The space almost boasted, "We're different, fresher than all those fuddy-duddy European paintings in the rest of the museum.""
• "At the ripe old age of 32 I'm being written off as a fuddy-duddy."
• "“Negro dialect” is a fuddy-duddy term for what some have called Ebonics, Black English, and other things, and it is a real linguistic phenomenon."