stick-in-the-mud

stick-in-the-mud (st

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n. pl. stick-in-the-muds Informal

One who lacks initiative, imagination, or enthusiasm.

stick-in-the-mud

Informal a staid or predictably conservative person who lacks initiative or imagination

stick-in-the-mud - Based on the notion of "to stick in the mud, to be content to remain in an abject condition."

See also related terms for remain.

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Noun	1.	stick-in-the-mud - someone who moves slowly; "in England they call a slowpoke a slowcoach" slowcoach, slowpoke, plodder dawdler, laggard, lagger, trailer, poke, drone - someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind
Adj.	1.	stick-in-the-mud - (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned; "moss-grown ideas about family life" fogyish, moss-grown, mossy, stodgy unfashionable, unstylish - not in accord with or not following current fashion; "unfashionable clothes"; "melodrama of a now unfashionable kind"

stick-in-the-mud

noun (Informal) (old) fogey, conservative, reactionary, stick (informal), dinosaur, die-hard, fuddy-duddy (informal), Colonel Blimp, sobersides a stick-in-the-mud who prefers the old, tried and tested methods

Translations

stick-in-the-mud (inf)

n → Muffel m (inf)

adj → rückständig; parents etc also → muffelig (inf)

stick-in-the-mud [ˈstɪkɪnðəˌmʌd] n (fam) → retrogrado/a

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bemire
conformist
conservative
cragfast
dawdler
die-hard
dinosaur
drone
fogey
fogyish
fuddy-duddy
laggard
Lagger
maverick
moss-grown
mossy
MUD
nonconformist
plodder

He said it was very true; and then began to praise the life, and tell what a pleasure it was to get on shore with money in his pocket, and spend it like a man, and buy apples, and swagger, and surprise what he called stick-in-the-mud boys.

Kidnapped by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context

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