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Definition: Fuddy-duddy |
Fuddy-duddyNoun1. (informal) a bore. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Fuddy-duddySynonym: stuffed shirt (n). (additional references) |
| "Fuddy-duddy" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 60.00% of the time. "Fuddy-duddy" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 60% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 40% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 10 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "fuddy-duddy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | person demode. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | старомоден човек (antediluvian, dodo, fogey, fogy, old timer), важен самомнителен стар глупак. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | verstaubt (dusted, dusty, fusty, gets dusty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | régimódi (antiquated, antique, dated, fogyish, fusty, old fashioned, old fogey, old-fashioned, out of date, passe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | uddy-duddyfay om veşnic nemulţumit. (various references) критикан (censor, critic, criticaster, kicker, sea lawyer), ворчун (croaker, crosspatch, grouse, growler, grumbler, nagger). (various references) džandrljiva osoba. (various references) viejo como un anciano (corny, hoary, musty), vejestorio (dodo, geezer, old fogey), persona chapada a la antigua (stick in the mud), chapado a la antigua (fogey, fogy). (various references) underlig kurre (queer fish, spook), gammal stofil (fossil). (various references) คนล้าสมัย. (various references) tutucu kimse (die hard, fanatic, old fogey, old fogy, sectarian, stickler), tutucu (conservative, dyed in the wool, fanatical, hidebound, puritan, puritanical, sectarian, square-toed, stick in the mud, strait laced, stuffy, unprogressive, uptight, wowser), eski kafalı kimse (antediluvian, back number, die hard, fogey, fogy, fossil, old fogey, old fogy, Square), eski kafalı (conservative, fogeyish, fogyish, fossil, fusty, grubby, narrow minded, old fashioned, old fogeyish, old fogyish, square-toed, superannuated). (various references) сталий (canonic, canonical, changeless, constant, settled, stabilized, steadfast, well balanced), критикан (censor, critic, kicker), консерватор (bourbon, conservative), буркітливий, буркотун (carper, catamaran, crab, grouch, grumbler, killjoy, nagger, rater, stammerer), причепливий (cantankerous, captious, carping, catching, catchy, censorious, fault finding, hypercritical, notional, pernickety, persnickety, snappish, snorty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-d-d-d-d-f-u-u-y-y" | |
-5 letters: duddy. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 75 64 64 79 2D 64 75 64 64 79 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01110101 01100100 01100100 01111001 00101101 01100100 01110101 01100100 01100100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F u d d y - d u d d y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0075 0064 0064 0079 002D 0064 0075 0064 0064 0079 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4087707091157087707091 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage Frequency 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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