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stick-in-the-mud

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stick-in-the-mud (stkn--md)
n. pl. stick-in-the-muds Informal
One who lacks initiative, imagination, or enthusiasm.

stick-in-the-mud
n
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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Noun1.stick-in-the-mud - someone who moves slowly; "in England they call a slowpoke a slowcoach"
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"
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)
nMuffel m (inf)
adjrückständig; parents etc alsomuffelig (inf)
stick-in-the-mud [ˈstɪkɪnðəˌmʌd] n (fam) → retrogrado/a


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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.
 
 
 
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