| Perhaps I'm turning into a bit of a fuddy-duddy boring would-rather-stay-at-home kind of guy. |
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| Although some librarians are thought to be among buyers of the model, others claim it perpetuates a fuddy-duddy stereotype. |
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| These are the sort of thoughts my grandfather might have had fifty years ago, and he was something of an anachronistic fuddy-duddy even then. |
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| Can a fine-dining restaurant in Minneapolis succeed if they ignore the all-important fuddy-duddy demographic? |
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| Some of the fuddy-duddy rules and regulations perhaps have eased, and we could do with encouraging more youngsters, but we have kept the essence of the game as it always was. |
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| I didn't want to appear like a holier-than-thou fuddy-duddy so I made pleasant small talk with Tonya's date as though I approved of these sort of shenanigans. |
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| We're asserting our youth and funkiness by coming here, because we had plenty of fuddy-duddy pubs to choose from. |
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| For one thing, his staid demeanour and the conservatism of his dress and habits might have led one to suppose that he was a fuddy-duddy, set in his ways and hostile to change. |
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| In the market where these contemporary artists ply their trade, the age-old discipline of drawing human figures is considered a rather fuddy-duddy exercise. |
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| And before the fuddy-duddy brigade rushes to condemn the idea as a recipe for teen troubles, just pause for thought and view the project in terms of business for shop owners. |
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| You can't get a real idea of the noise and the atmosphere, and that's no exaggeration or an old fuddy-duddy thinking that everything was better in the good old days. |
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| Words like that are called reduplicates and some of my favorites include dilly-dally, fuddy-duddy, higgledy-piggledy, hurly-burly, and namby-pamby. |
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| Embroideries, no matter how exquisite, can look fuddy-duddy. |
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| American coins have become fuddy-duddy, this panel said. |
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| Not fuddy-duddy, exactly, but certainly out of date. |
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| They'd like it to be some old fuddy-duddy. |
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| In less than three years he has transformed Britain's biggest clothier from a fuddy-duddy purveyor of black socks and cashmere sweaters into a nimble retailer of fast-moving fashions. |
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| My grandma is a fuddy-duddy when it comes to keeping her house clean. |
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