Usually means: Old-fashioned, fussy, and resistant change.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word fuddy duddy:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. fuddy-duddy: Merriam-Webster
  2. fuddy-duddy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fuddy-duddy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fuddy-duddy, fuddy-duddy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fuddy-duddy: Vocabulary.com
  6. fuddy-duddy: Wordnik
  7. fuddy-duddy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. fuddy-duddy: Wiktionary
  9. fuddy-duddy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. fuddy-duddy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. fuddy-duddy: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. fuddy-duddy, fuddy duddy: Dictionary.com
  13. fuddy-duddy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Fuddy-duddy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. fuddy-duddy: Rhymezone
  16. fuddy-duddy: FreeDictionary.org
  17. fuddy-duddy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. Fuddy Duddy: The Word Detective
  19. fuddy-duddy: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. Fuddy-duddy: World Wide Words
  21. fuddy-duddy: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  22. fuddy duddy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fuddy-duddy: A Word A Day

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Fuddy-Duddy, fuddy duddy: Urban Dictionary


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