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What is a fuddy-duddy?

What is a fuddy-duddy? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (US, informal) An old-fashioned, persnickety or ineffective person.
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In the market where these contemporary artists ply their trade, the age-old discipline of drawing human figures is considered a rather fuddy-duddy exercise.
For one thing, his staid demeanour and the conservatism of his dress and habits might have led one to suppose that he was a fuddy-duddy, set in his ways and hostile to change.
You can't get a real idea of the noise and the atmosphere, and that's no exaggeration or an old fuddy-duddy thinking that everything was better in the good old days.
I DON'T want to be an old fuddy-duddy but you're only 12 and have years of falling in love and falling out of love ahead of you.
We're asserting our youth and funkiness by coming here, because we had plenty of fuddy-duddy pubs to choose from.
I didn't want to appear like a holier-than-thou fuddy-duddy so I made pleasant small talk with Tonya's date as though I approved of these sort of shenanigans.

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