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Stick-in-the-mud

adjective

(used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned. Synonyms: fogyish, moss-grown, mossy, stodgy.

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"Stick-in-the-mud" Quotes from Famous Books

... old stick-in-the-mud. Don't sit there, doubled up like a government mule," he laughed. (The army lingo still showed itself once in a while in Fred's speech.) "Help me get this room ready or I'll whale you with this," and he waved one end of a trace over his head. ...

— The Fortunes of Oliver Horn • F. Hopkinson Smith

Words linked to "Stick-in-the-mud" : unstylish, poke, drone, dawdler, laggard, unfashionable, trailer, lagger