He was disgusted with the stodgy pizzas on sale in London.
They're not cultured or interesting, they are boring stodgy old things.
English dictionary. 2008.
Stodgy — Stodg y, a. Wet. [Prov. Eng.] G. Eliot. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
stodgy — index lifeless (dull), pedestrian Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
stodgy — 1823, of a thick, semi solid consistency, from stodge to stuff (1670s), of unknown origin, perhaps somehow imitative. Meaning dull, heavy developed by 1874 from noun sense of stodge applied to food (1825) … Etymology dictionary
stodgy — *dull, humdrum, dreary, monotonous, pedestrian Analogous words: *heavy, weighty, ponderous: *irksome, tedious, wearisome, tiresome, boring: stuffy, straitlaced, prudish (see PRIM) … New Dictionary of Synonyms
stodgy — [adj] dull, stuffy banausic, boring, dim, dreary, formal, heavy, labored, monotonous, pedantic, pedestrian, plodding, ponderous, staid, tedious, turgid, unexciting, unimaginative, uninspired, uninteresting, weighty; concepts 401,404 Ant.… … New thesaurus
stodgy — [stä′jē] adj. stodgier, stodgiest [< STODGE + Y2] 1. heavy and unpalatable: said of food 2. heavily built; bulky and slow in movement 3. dull; tedious; uninteresting 4. drab, unfashionable … English World dictionary
stodgy — adjective (stodgier; est) Date: 1854 1. having a rich filling quality ; heavy < stodgy bread > 2. moving in a slow plodding way especially as a result of physical bulkiness 3. boring, dull < out on a peaceful rather stodgy Sunday boat trip Edna… … New Collegiate Dictionary
stodgy — stodgily, adv. stodginess, n. /stoj ee/, adj., stodgier, stodgiest. 1. heavy, dull, or uninteresting; tediously commonplace; boring: a stodgy Victorian novel. 2. of a thick, semisolid consistency; heavy, as food. 3. stocky; thick set. 4. old… … Universalium
stodgy — stodg|y [ˈstɔdʒi US ˈsta: ] adj 1.) if someone or something is stodgy, they are boring and formal or old fashioned used to show disapproval ▪ a stodgy play 2.) BrE stodgy food is heavy and makes you feel full very quickly used to show disapproval … Dictionary of contemporary English
stodgy — adjective 1 stodgy food is heavy and makes you feel full very quickly 2 BrE informal stodgy writing is dull and difficult to read 3 a stodgy person is dull and behaves rather formally stodginess noun (U) … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
