Words at Play : Weird Rhyming Words
Definition:
: one who is old-fashioned or ultraconservative
About the Word:
Fuddy-duddy can refer either to a person who is old-fashioned, one who is pompous, or one who is concerned overmuch with trifles. No one is entirely certain where it came from, although there is speculation that it is from the Scots word fuddy ("the tail of an animal").
Example:
"Smitherson, what can you find to like about Blayne? Of all the narrow, unenterprising, fuddy-duddies he takes the cake! Doesn't seem to be an ounce of red blood in him!" — Arthur Chamberlain, The National Magazine, January 1897
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