Adjective: stick-in-the-mud 'sti-kin dhu,múd
Usage: informal
Usage: informal
Usage: informal
- (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned
"stick-in-the-mud ideas about family life";
- fogyish [informal], moss-grown [N. Amer, informal], mossy [N. Amer, informal], stodgy, fogeyish
Usage: informal
- Someone who moves slowly
"The stick-in-the-mud at the front of the line was holding up everyone behind him";
- plodder, slowpoke [N. Amer, informal], slowcoach [Brit, informal]
Derived forms: stick-in-the-muds
See also: daggy [Austral, NZ, informal], unfashionable, unstylish