fuddy-duddy

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An old-fashioned, persnickety or ineffective person. US,informal
    — My grandma is a fuddy-duddy when it comes to keeping her house clean.
形容词 adj.
  1. Old-fashioned and persnickety or ineffective. US,informal
    — 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 shorts, […]

词形变化

fuddy-duddies plural fuddyduddy alternative fuddy-duddier comparative fuddy-duddiest superlative fuddyduddy alternative

词源

词源 1
Unknown. First attested in the US circa 1900.
词源 2
Unknown. First attested in the US circa 1900.
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