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What is a fuddy-duddy?

What is a fuddy-duddy? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (US, informal) An old-fashioned, persnickety or ineffective person.
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Although some librarians are thought to be among buyers of the model, others claim it perpetuates a fuddy-duddy stereotype.
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.
Perhaps I'm turning into a bit of a fuddy-duddy boring would-rather-stay-at-home kind of guy.
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.
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.
Can a fine-dining restaurant in Minneapolis succeed if they ignore the all-important fuddy-duddy demographic?

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