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Adjective: stodgy (stodgier,stodgiest)  stójee
  1. Heavy and starchy and hard to digest
    "stodgy food"; "a stodgy pudding served up when everyone was already full"
     
  2. (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned
    - fogyish, moss-grown, mossy, stick-in-the-mud
     
  3. Excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull
    "why is the middle class so stodgy, so utterly without a sense of humour?"; "a stodgy dinner party"
    - stuffy

Derived forms: stodgier, stodgiest

See also: conventional, daggy [Austral, NZ], indigestible, stodgily, stodginess, unfashionable, unstylish