| 释义 |
fuddy-duddy slang.|ˈfʌdɪˈdʌdɪ|
[Origin unknown.]
An old-fashioned person; an ineffectual old fogy. Also attrib. or as adj.
[1899W. Dickinson Cumberland Gloss. 106/2 Duddy fuddiel, a ragged fellow.] 1904in H. Wentworth Amer. Dial. Dict. (1944) 236/2. 1907 Dialect Notes III. 244 Fuddy-duddy, n. and adj. 1938D. Moffat Mott Family in France xvii. 191 Mr. Mott wandered along the Promenade..looking at the damned old fuddy-duddies who cluttered it up. 1940Harper's Dec. 1 a A great many people..believe its [American army] officer class is caste-ridden and fuddy-duddy. 1951‘N. Shute’ Round Bend 310 People may call the Sheikh of Khulal an old fuddy-duddy, but he's an important man in these parts. 1957Times 23 Aug. 9/4 What was once called prudish and is now sneered at as being ‘fuddy-duddy’. 1958Observer 23 Mar. 14/4 Deserted country-house with fuddy-duddy owner. 1964L. Nkosi Rhythm of Violence ii. ii. 30 Some priests can be..more militant than some fuddy-duddies who pass as politicians! 1970D. Balsdon Oxford Now & Then 134 So much for ‘a straight run to the grave’. How fuddy-duddy they all were. |