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Fuddy-duddy

//ˈfʌdiˌdʌdi// adj, noun, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 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, […]"

Noun
  1. 1
    An old-fashioned, persnickety or ineffective person. US, informal

    "My grandma is a fuddy-duddy when it comes to keeping her house clean."

  2. 2
    a conservative who is old-fashioned or dull in attitude or appearance wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Unknown. First attested in the US circa 1900.

Etymology 2

Unknown. First attested in the US circa 1900.

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