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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (3)

1. heavy and starchy and hard to digest;
- Example: "stodgy food"
- Example: "a stodgy pudding served up when everyone was already full"

2. (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned;
- Example: "moss-grown ideas about family life"
[syn: fogyish, moss-grown, mossy, stick-in-the-mud(p), stodgy]

3. excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull;
- Example: "why is the middle class so stodgy, so utterly without a sense of humor?"
- Example: "a stodgy dinner party"
[syn: stodgy, stuffy]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Stodgy \Stodg"y\, a.
   Wet. [Prov. Eng.] --G. Eliot.
   [1913 Webster] Stoechiology


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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" [syn: 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" [syn: stodgy,
       stuffy]