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stodgy

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stodg·y  (stj)
adj. stodg·i·er, stodg·i·est
1.
a. Dull, unimaginative, and commonplace.
b. Prim or pompous; stuffy: "Why is the middle-class so stodgyso utterly without a sense of humor!" Katherine Mansfield. See Synonyms at dull.
2. Indigestible and starchy; heavy: stodgy food.
3. Solidly built; stocky.

[From stodge, thick filling food, from stodge, to cram.]

stodgi·ly adv.
stodgi·ness n.

stodgy
Adjective
[stodgier, stodgiest]
1. (of food) full of starch and very filling
2. (of a person) dull, serious, or excessively formal [from stodge]
stodginess n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.stodgy - heavy and starchy and hard to digest; "stodgy food"; "a stodgy pudding served up when everyone was already full"
indigestible - digested with difficulty
2.stodgy - (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"
3.stodgy - excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull; "why is the middle class so stodgy, so utterly without a sense of humor?"; "a stodgy dinner party"
conventional - following accepted customs and proprieties; "conventional wisdom"; "she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior"; "conventional forms of address"

stodgy
adjective 1. heavy, filling, substantial, leaden, starchy << OPPOSITE light
adjective 2. dull, boring, stuffy, formal, tedious, tiresome, staid, unimaginative, turgid, uninspired, unexciting, ho-hum, heavy going, fuddy-duddy (informal) dull as ditchwater << OPPOSITE exciting
Translations

stodgy [ˈstɔdʒɪ] adjindigesto, pesado
stodgy [ˈstɔdʒɪ] adjbourratif/ive, lourd(e)
stodgy [ˈstɔdʒɪ] adj (food) → pampig (inf)schwer
stodgy [ˈstɔdʒɪ] adjpesante, indigesto/a

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You never exactly knew whether there would be a real meal or just a make-believe, it all depended upon Peter's whim: he could eat, really eat, if it was part of a game, but he could not stodge [cram down the food] just to feel stodgy [stuffed with food], which is what most children like better than anything else; the next best thing being to talk about it.
The velocity that stodgy man developed in the interests of a complete stranger earned my warm gratitude--there was something truly cordial in his exertions.
 
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