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stodg·y

(stŏj′ē)

adj. stodg·i·er, stodg·i·est

a. Dull, unimaginative, and commonplace. See Synonyms at dull.

b. Old-fashioned and stuffy: "Why is the middle-class so stodgy—so utterly without a sense of humor!" (Katherine Mansfield).

2. Indigestible and starchy; heavy: stodgy food.

3. Solidly built; stocky.

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

stodg′i·ly adv.

stodg′i·ness n.

stodgy

(ˈstɒdʒɪ)

adj, stodgier or stodgiest

1. (Cookery) (of food) heavy or uninteresting

2. excessively formal and conventional

[C19: from stodge]

ˈstodgily adv

ˈstodginess n

stodg•y

(ˈstɒdʒ i)

adj. stodg•i•er, stodg•i•est.

1. dull or uninteresting; boring.

2. heavy, as food.

3. stocky; thickset.

4. unduly formal and traditional.

5. dull; graceless; inelegant: a stodgy business suit.

[1815–25]

stodg′i•ly, adv.

stodg′i•ness, n.

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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" fogyish, stick-in-the-mud, moss-grown, mossy 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" stuffy 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 He was disgusted by the stodgy pizzas on sale in London.
heavy light, fluffy, insubstantial

2. dull, boring, stuffy, formal, tedious, tiresome, staid, unimaginative, turgid, uninspired, unexciting, ho-hum, heavy going, fuddy-duddy (informal), dull as ditchwater stodgy old fogies
dull interesting, exciting, stimulating, lively, fresh, fashionable, trendy (Brit. informal), up-to-date, animated, readable

stodgy

adjective

1. Lacking liveliness, charm, or surprise:

arid, aseptic, colorless, drab, dry, dull, earthbound, flat, flavorless, lackluster, lifeless, lusterless, matter-of-fact, pedestrian, prosaic, spiritless, sterile, unimaginative, uninspired.

2. Having a dense or viscous consistency:

gelatinous, heavy, thick.

3. Short, heavy, and solidly built:

blocky, chunky, compact, dumpy, heavyset, squat, stocky, stubby, stumpy, thick, thickset.

Translations

باهِت، غَيْر حَيَوي، غَيْر مُمْتِعمُكَوَّن من طَعام ثَقيل وَصَلْب

nezáživnýtěžký

kedeligtung

schwerfällig schwerverdaulich

lourd

laktató

andlaus, daufleguròungmeltur, òungur

nezáživný

stodgy

[ˈstɒdʒɪ] ADJ (stodgier (compar) (stodgiest (superl)))

1. [food] → indigesto

2. (fig) [book, style, person] → pesado

stodgy

[ˈstɒdʒi] adj

[food, cake, pudding] → bourratif/ive, lourd(e)

(= stuffy) [book, style] → indigeste; [person] → barbant(e)

stodgy

adj (+er) food → pampig (inf), → schwer; style → schwerfällig; subject → trocken; book → schwer verdaulich; person → langweilig, fad

stodgy

[ˈstɒdʒɪ] adj (-ier (comp) (-iest (superl))) (food, book) → pesante, indigesto/a; (person) → pesante

stodge

(stodʒ) noun

heavy, solid food.

ˈstodgy adjective

1. (of meals etc) consisting of stodge. stodgy food.

2. (of people, books etc) dull; not lively.

ˈstodginess noun

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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.

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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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But December and January were The thing her was a stodgy which putting terrible, she was overwhelmed with lethargy, and couldn't be bothered to do anything.

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They attributed the increase to 'low-fat' meal substitutes, as dieters often go for stodgy alternatives like bread and pasta, and often miss out on some vital nutrients.

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Iran had been expected to try to reinvigorate the stodgy grouping and lead it in vocal confrontations with the Western world.

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Wafer thin and tasteless to begin with, they quickly became disagreeably stodgy.

CHEAP AS CHIPS

Other indicators are a heavy feeling in the arms or legs, oversleeping, a change in appetite, craving stodgy, carbohydtrate-heavy foods and gaining weight.

The symptoms to watch out for

This overly stodgy true story brought audiences first to tears and later to their feet for a rousing standing ovation at the Toronto fest with its placid, postcard-worthy view of how men of a certain generation cope with deep emotional scars, tenderly acted by Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman, as Lomax and the woman who inspired his healing.

The Railway Man

It was slightly more stodgy than the Rachel's version, which just shaded it as my favourite rice pot.

MRS MOP

Sweet and stodgy and even our currant-phobes were OK with it.

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Theirs was undoubtedly the best batting of the match, against a worldclass attack - albeit one going gently through the gears on a stodgy pitch, with much bigger assignments in the offing.

Batsmen on top at kent; IN BRIEF

It examines exactly how these tricks are mechanically accomplished, considering the 'sleeper' car that looks stodgy but rips off the line at an awesome rate of speed.