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• 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

• I'm certainly not a 'younger worker' and I find these tips pretty fuddy-duddy indeed.
• Fifi wasn't much good at school, but she knew she could charm the teachers, especially the fuddy-duddy middle-aged ones, who fumbled when she smoothed her hair or adjusted the .
• But there is another, subterranean world of people with aliases and attitudes that makes the Internet seem almost fuddy-duddy.

News & Articles

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• Bourbon shoulders its way into spirits spotlight
  American whiskey is winning the world over, as formerly fuddy-duddy brown spirits are starting to look as white-hot as vodka. In 2012, for the first time in recent memory, whiskey sales increased faster than those of vodka, gin, tequila and other spirits.
  June 22, 2013 - Seattle Times

Quotes

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• Mariah Carey in Contactmusic.com
  Carey explains, "I don't see what the big deal is. Should I be with an old fuddy-duddy who would be boring and bleak? I have fun. It doesn't really matter to me. I've already dealt with someone who was older than me. I don't want to go back there....
• Nick Flanagan in Daily Telegraph
  As it is, I don't even find golf the most exciting sport to watch,Flanagan told The Daily Telegraph. "Golf is trying to get rid of the fuddy-duddy old image to get bigger crowds and younger people. It's the same in every sport. There's...
• David Nobbs in Scotland on Sunday
  About 30% is me,says Nobbs. "I couldn't do it on my own because I live in North Yorkshire, down a track outside a small village, and I'm out of touch with office life and all the jargon. But maybe I'm not that much of a fuddy-duddy. There...