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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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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.
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.
Can a fine-dining restaurant in Minneapolis succeed if they ignore the all-important fuddy-duddy demographic?
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.
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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