stick-in-the-mud meaning

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stick-in-the-mud (adjective): (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned.

stick-in-the-mud has 2 meanings in this dictionary, as adjective and noun.

stick-in-the-mud as an adjective

  1. (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned
    • moss-grown ideas about family life

    Synonyms: fogyish, moss-grown, mossy, stodgy

    Similar: unfashionable

stick-in-the-mud as a noun

  1. someone who moves slowly
    • in England they call a slowpoke a slowcoach

    Synonyms: plodder, slowpoke, slowcoach

    Type of: dawdler

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