n a conservative who is old-fashioned or dull in attitude or appearance
you may accuse me of being and old fuddy-duddy trying to stop young people having fun
n British physicist who was born in Germany and fled Nazi persecution; in the 1940s he passed secret information to the USSR about the development of the atom bomb in the United States (1911-1988)
n any of various tropical shrubs widely cultivated for their showy drooping purplish or reddish or white flowers; Central and South America and New Zealand and Tahiti