heavy and starchy and hard to digest; stodgy food; a stodgy pudding served up when everyone was already full'

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

[ Syn: fogyish , moss-grown , mossy , stick-in-the-mud ]

excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull; why is the middle class so stodgy, so utterly without a sense of humor?; a stodgy dinner party

[ Syn: stuffy ]