(US, informal) An old-fashioned, persnickety or ineffective person.
My grandma is a fuddy-duddy when it comes to keeping her house clean.
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(US, informal) Old-fashioned and persnickety or ineffective.
Kingsolver lives by the tenets of her public-spirited fictional characters, whom she sculpts with a keen eye for individuality, e.g. Nannie Land Rawley, a seventy-something orchardist who shocks a fuddy-duddy male neighbor by wearing sho…
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The aesthetic vocabulary of how people dress now — quiet luxury, coquette, mob wife, coastal grandmother, Y2K core, and every "-core" that came after.
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