Stodgy

Definition: Stodgy

Stodgy

Adjective

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

2. 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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "stodgy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1856. (references)

Etymology: Stodgy \Stodg"y\, adjective. Wet. [Provincial English]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Stodgy

Crosswords: Stodgy

Afrikaans

vervelig (boring, tiresome). (various references)

Albanian

i rëndë (arduous, artless, awkward, bad, bulky, burdensome, cubbish, cumbersome, cumbrous, dead, difficile, elephantine, grave, grievous, grinding, hard, heavy, hefty, incondite, knock about, leaden, lumping, massive, oafish, onerous, peremptory, plodding, ponderous, portly, serious, set up, severe, solemn, stertorous, tricky, unwieldy, wakeless, weighty), i mbushur plot (congested, cram full). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ممل (boring, dreary, dull, humdrum, irksome, iterative, monotonous, mundane, ponderous, slow, tedious, tiresome, troublesome, uninteresting, vapid, weariful, wearisome, weary), ‏غليظ (boor, churlish, coarse, hoarse, loutish, mannerless, robust, rugged, rustic, strongarm, thick, ungainly, unmannerly, wild), ‏عسير الهضم (indigestible), ‏ثقيل (boring, cumbersome, dully, heaver, heavy, hefty, hulking, leaden, lumbering, massive, oppressive, ponderous, uninteresting, unwieldy, weighty). (various references)

Bulgarian 

скучен (arid, dead alive, drear, dryasdust, dull, dumb, dusty, heartbreaking, heavy, humdrum, insipid, jejune, jogtrot, long, long winded, long-spun, moldy, monotonous, mouldy, mousey, plodding, pokey, ponderous, prosaic, prosy, slow, soggy, stuffy, tedious, uninspired, uninteresting, unvaried, vapid, weariful, wearisome), тромав (awkward, bumbling, clumsy, cumbersome, cumbrous, elephantine, flat-footed, gawky, hamfisted, heavy, hulking, lumbering, lumpish, lumpy, maladroit, ponderous, rude, shambling, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, unwieldy), тежък (cumbrous, dense, difficult, distressing, faint, grave, grievous, grinding, hammering, hard, heavy, hefty, high, hulking, labored, laborious, laboured, leaden, lumping, lumpish, lumpy, massive, massy, muggy, onerous, painful, plodding, ponderous, robust, rugged, sad, severe, shrewd, sledgehammer, slow, smart, smashing, soggy, solemn, sore, stiff, taxing, thorny, tight, tough, traumatic, trying, unwieldy, uphill, weighty), клисав (heavy, pasty, sad, sodden, soggy), натъпкан (chock full, choke-full, crowded, gorged, packed, tight), засищащ. (various references)

Czech

tìžký (bad, chunky, dangerous, difficult, grave, grievous, hard, heady, heavy, labored, laboured, man-sized, ponderous, severe, thick, uphill, weighty), nezáživný (dry, dull, wearisome), nestravitelný (inconsumable, indigestible, unpalatable). (various references)

Dutch

saai (boring, dull, lifeless, monotonous, tiresome), vervelend (bleak, boring, bothersome, dismal, dreary, ghastly, grisly, horrible, nasty, tiresome, weary), vermoeiend (boring, tiresome), taai (boring, leather, tiresome), onverteerbaar, melig (apathetic, boring, tiresome), lusteloos (apathetic, dispassionately, dull, lifeless). (various references)

Esperanto

senverva (dull, lifeless), teda (boring, tiresome), nedigestebla, enuiga (boring). (various references)

Farsi 

لخت (Bare, Lax, Naked, Nude, Picked), قلنبه (Baggy, Bloc, Block, Bombastic, Hunch, Lump, Lumpy, Nub, Outstanding, Pone, Sonorous, Stilted), گردن کلفت (Bully, Dumpy, Roughneck, Ruffian, Thug), سنگین وکندرو, سنگین (Burdensome, Cumbersome, Demure, Earnest, Grave, Heavy, Hefty, Laden, Lumpy, Onerous, Ponderous, Sober, Staid, Unwieldy, Weighty), انباشته (Congeries, Full, Oodles, Replete, Stockpile). (various references)

French

maussade, lourd, indigeste, ennuyeux (stuffy), bourratif, étouffé. (various references)

German

schwerfällig (awkward, bovine, clumsy, cumbersome, cumbersomely, dull, heavily, heavy, inarticulate, inelegant, inelegantly, klutzy, labored, laboured, lumbering, lumberingly, phlegmatic, ponderous, ponderously, slow, sluggish, unwieldy). (various references)

Greek 

βαρύσ (beefy, cumbrous, heavy, hefty, labored, laboured, leaden, logy, lumpish, massive, onerous, ponderous, pregnant, saturnine, waterlogged, weighty), ανιαρόσ (borer, boring, drab, dull, irksome, prosaic, prosaical, prosy, tedious, uninteresting, wearisome, weary), δύσπεπτοσ (indigestible). (various references)

Hebrew 

קש�" לעכול (indigestible), כב�" ומשעמם (ponderous). (various references)

Hungarian

vaskos (buxom, chopping, chunky, crass, fat, gross, stout), nehezen emészthető (hard of digestion, to take a lot of digesting), laktató (filling), köpcös (dumpy, podgy, pursy, squab, squabby, stocky, stubby, stumpy, thick-set, tubby). (various references)

Italian

pesante (burdensome, difficult, dull, grave, hard, heavy, inconvenient, lumpy, muggy, ponderous, serious, slow, trying, weightily, weighty), noioso (annoying, boring, dull, humdrum, onerous, pesky, prosy, slow, tame, tedious, tiresome, troublesome, workaday, worrisome), indigesto (indigestible, indigestive). (various references)

Manx

trome (bold, burdensome, close, close oppressive, crippling, crippling burden, deep, deep-drawn, dense, dense of smoke, difficult, emphatic, expectant, expecting, grave, grievous, gruelling, hard, harsh, heavy, heavyweight, high pressure, intense, laborious, onerous, ponderous, pregnant, rough of sea, severe, sledge-hammer, steep, substantial, sweated, wearying, weighty, with child). (various references)

Norwegian

kjedelig (boring, drag, dreary, dull, humdrum, tiresome). (various references)

Pig Latin

odgystay

Portuguese

pesado (burdensome, cumbersome, cumbrous, drab, elephantine, gloomy, gross, heavy, hefty, hulking, leaden, logy, lumbering, lumping, lumpish, massive, massy, muff, muggy, onerous, oppressive, plodding, ponderous, rigourous, slowpoke, sodden, soggy, sound, stringent, tubby, unwieldy, weighty), indigesto (indigestible, undigested), fastidioso (annoying, boring, disgustful, drab, dull, fastidious, irksome, monotonous, picksome, tedious, tiresome, wearisome), entulhado, enfadonho (arid, barren, boring, bothersome, difficult, disagreeable, drab, dull, fastidious, humdrum, insipid, lengthy, monotone, monotonous, muzzy, pesky, preachy, prolix, prosy, repetitious, soporific, tedious, tiresome, untoward, vapid, vexing, wearisome, weary), aborrecido (annoyed, beastly, boring, bothersome, damnable, disgusted, drab, dreary, dull, dullish, grouchy, horrid, irksome, jaded, meddler, morose, mumpish, outworn, pernickety, pesky, prose, provoking, soporific, sulky, tedious, tired, tiresome, tiring, troublesome, unpleasant, vexed, vexing, wearisome, weary, worn-out, worried, worrisome), aborrecedor (boring). (various references)

Romanian

voluminos (big, bulky, capacious, extensive, gross, man-sized, massive, spacious, voluminous), plicticos (boring, bothersome, dryasdust, dull, humdrum, lifeless, musty, ponderous, tedious, toilsome, vapid, wearisome), nedisgestibil, greu de digerat (hard of digestion, indigestible), greu (annoying, arduous, awkward, burden, burdensome, busy, clumsy, dangerously, difficult, difficulty, fatiguing, gravely, grievous, hard, hardly, heavily, heavy, inconvenient, labored, laborious, laboured, leaden, lot, massive, massy, near, onerous, oppressive, painful, parlous, precarious, punitive, reluctantly, scarcely, seriously, severe, solid, stiff, stolid, strenuous, stuffy, ticklish, toilful, tough, troublesome, trying, uneasy, uphill, wearisome, weary, weight, weighty), greoi (artless, bearish, dull, elephantine, gawky, heavy, hulking, lubberly, lumpish, massy, ponderous, slow, stolid, ungainly, ungraceful, unwieldy, weighty), confuz (abashed, addle, bewildered, blurred, chaotic, confused, crabbed, dim, embarrassed, faint, gloomily, hazy, hugger mugger, misty, muddy, muzzy, nebulous, turbid, vague, washy, wrongheaded). (various references)

Russian 

тяжелый (clunky, difficile, grave, grievous, grinding, hammerblow, hammer-blow, hard, heartrending, heart-rending, heavy, leaden, lumping, ponderous, rough, rugged, severe, sopor, weighty, wrenching), тяжеловесный (heavy, lumpish, ponderous, puddingy). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ukočen (numb, prim, stiff, torpid), testast (doughy, pasty), kabast, dosadan (acerbate, annoying, boring, bothersome, drear, dreary, grinding, humdrum, incommodious, long-spun, pain in the neck, pesky, poky, repetitious, slow, stuffy, teasing, tedious, tiresome, undiverted, vexatious). (various references)

Spanish

aburrido (bored, boring, dry, dull, humdrum, prosy, slow, tame, tired, tiresome, wearisome, weary). (various references)

Swedish

bastant (burly, solid, stout, substantial). (various references)

Turkish

sindirimi güç (indigestible), sıkıcı (arid, bald, boring, burdensome, constringent, cut and dried, damnable, dead alive, disconcerting, ditch water, ditchwater, drab, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, gaunt, gloomy, grave, grotty, humdrum, inanimate, insipid, irksome, oppressive, poky, ponderous, prose, prosy, slow, sluggish, soul-destroying, soulless, stuffy, tedious, tiresome, trying, uncongenial, unexeciting, unpleasant, unreadable, unsensational, vapid, waste, watery, wearisome), hantal (bulky, chubby, clumsy, cumbersome, cumbrous, elephantine, gross, hulking, hulky, loutish, lubber, lumbering, lumpish, plodding, ponderous, rude, sesquipedalian, soggy, ungainly, ungraceful, unwieldy, yahoo), bıktırıcı (disgusting, fulsome, irksome, prosy, sickening, tedious, tiresome, troublesome, wearing, wearisome, weary), ağır (arduous, back breaking, badly, bovine, burdensome, contemptuous, cumbersome, cumbrous, deep, deliberate, dignified, drudging, dull, fabian, foul, grave, grievous, hard, harsh, heavily, heavy, hefty, indigestible, languid, lazy, lumbering, massive, measured, muzzy, not fast, onerous, oppressive, plodding, ponderous, repressive, rich, scorching, scornful, serious, serious minded, seriously, severe, severely, sharp, slack, slashing, slow, slow moving, slowly, sluggish, smashing, strenuous, strong, swingeing, toilful, toilsome, unwholesome, unwieldy, weighty). (various references)

Ukrainian

густий (creamy, dense, grouty, opaque, solid, thick, velvet, velvety), нудний (arid, barren, dead alive, depressing, heartbreaking, humdrum, insipid, irksome, long winded, matter of fact, monotonous, prolix, prosaic, prosy, repetitious, soggy, stuffy, stupid, tedious, weariful, wearying, workaday), дебелий (obese). (various references)

Vietnamese 

nặng trịch; bu�"n tẻ, nặng nề (carking, clumpish, onerous, thick), khó tiêu, căng nứt quá nhiều chi tiết. (various references)

Misspellings

"Stodgy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Osgodby, stoddy, stodgie, stody, stogey, stogg, stogiy, stoogy, sturgy. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: stogy.

-2 letters: dogs, dogy, dost, dots, doty, gods, goys, tods, tody, togs, toys, yods.

-3 letters: dog, dos, dot, god, gos, got, goy, ods, sod, sot, soy, sty, tod, tog, toy, yod.

-4 letters: do, go, od, os, oy, so, to, yo.

+2 letters: stodgily.

+4 letters: destroying, pterygoids.

+5 letters: designatory, dyslogistic, grandiosity, hydrologist, outstudying, troglodytes.