stodgyadj.

Brit.

/ˈstɒdʒi/, U.S.

/ˈstɑdʒi/

Etymology: < stodge v. + -y suffix¹.

a. Of a thick, semi-solid consistency.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > viscosity > [adjective]

thickc888

toughc1000

cleavingc1350

gluey1382

gluish1382

gleiming1387

gummya1398

clammy1398

gleimy1398

viscosec1400

viscousc1400

emplastic?a1425

plastery?c1425

stiffc1430

clamc1440

engleimous?c1475

rawky1509

rich1535

clammish1543

limy1552

strong1560

glutinous1576

cloggy1587

emplastical1590

viscuous1603

plasterish1610

slaba1616

bound1635

viscid1635

lentous1646

spiscious1655

melleous1656

salivarious1656

glutining1658

syrupical1659

glairy1662

gummous1669

gummose1678

mellaginous1681

melligineous1684

pargety1684

sticky1688

sizy1691

dauby1697

syrupy1707

treacly?1734

glaireous1755

flabbyc1780

spissid1782

stodgy1823

waxy1835

teery1848

treacle-like1871

viscoid1877

slauming1904

gooey1906

gloopy1929

gunky1937

gungy1962

yucky1975

1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 400 Stodjy, thick—clayey—clogsome. Such as a heavy road.

1887 W. D. Parish & W. F. Shaw Dict. Kentish Dial. Stodgy, thick; glutinous; muddy. ‘The church path's got middlin' stodgy.’

b. Of food, esp. of farinaceous food: thick, glutinous.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > consistency of food > [adjective] > stiff or thick

standingc1400

chargeantc1425

woolly1687

clunch1776

stodgya1852

a1852 W. T. Spurdens Forby's Vocab. E. Anglia (1858) III. 49 Stodgy, thick, as porridge: pulmentum crassum.

1866 London Rev. 2 June 608/2 A stodgy mass of paste in which potatoes and odds and ends of food have been mixed.

a1890 R. F. Burton in I. Burton Life R. F. Burton (1893) I. 74 This cannibal meal was succeeded by stodgy pudding.

1906 O. C. Malvery Soul Market ix. 156 The meat was almost raw, the potatoes stodgy.

c. Of food or a meal: heavy, solid, hard to ‘get through’.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > consistency of food > [adjective] > stodgy

dunch1824

stodgy1884

1884 Harper's Mag. Oct. 709/2 The stodgy table d'hôte.

1889 C. Keene in Life (1892) xiii. 409 It's a stodgy feed—soup, fish, flesh, and fowl, etc.

2. figurative. Dull, heavy; wanting in gaiety or brightness.

a. of literary composition, a subject of conversation, etc.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > weakness or feebleness > [adjective] > dull

tedious1412

weary1549

plumbeousa1586

ungayed1670

deserta1674

prosaic1692

pedestrian1716

languishing1741

unglittering1813

prosy1837

urned1849

monotone1862

bluebooky1872

stodgy1874

pedestrial1941

1874 L. Troubridge Life amongst Troubridges (1966) 89 We had meant to play Rats and Ferrets, but we had to begin a stodgy game of Old Maid.

1885 C. M. Yonge Nuttie's Father i. x. 111 One of the stodgey [sic] old clergymen in books.

1887 Longman's Mag. May 107 The most merciless and interminable romance that ever lowered the circulation of a magazine, and then appeared in three stodgy volumes.

1895 Jowett in L. A. Tollemache Benjamin Jowett 8 I must make a bargain with you that, when we take a walk together, you don't put more than one of your stodgy questions!

1906 ‘G. Thorne’ First it was Ordained 106 In England, art must be obvious and stodgy before people think it's respectable.

1907 Academy 28 Sept. 948 Stodgy sonnets to the moon.

1976 J. I. M. Stewart Memorial Service ii. 24 The stodgy lime-streaked effigy of Provost Harbage..is really more congruous with the spirit of the place.

1977 National Observer (U.S.) 1 Jan. 5/4 It was a stodgy old company when he came to it as president of the international division.

1977 Time 31 Jan. 13/2 Leidigkeit, 38, has brought scandal and notoriety to Bonn's Ermekeil Strasse, formerly a quiet, slightly stodgy row of shops, middle-class town houses and student flats.

b. of a person, ceremony, one's life. Also applied to other objects, activities, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adjective] > wearisome or tedious

dreicha1300

alangec1330

joylessa1400

tedious1412

wearifulc1454

weary1465

laboriousa1475

tiresome?a1513

irksome1513

wearisome1530

woodena1566

irkful1570

flat1573

leaden1593

barren1600

soaked1600

unlively1608

dulla1616

irking1629

drearisome1633

drear1645

plumbous1651

fatigable1656

dreary1667

uncurious1685

unenlivened1692

blank1726

disinteresting1737

stupid1748

stagnant1749

trist?1756

vegetable1757

borish1766

uninteresting1769

unenlivening1774

oorie1787

wearying1796

subjectless1803

yawny1805

wearing1811

stuffy1813

sloomy1820

tediousome1823

arid1827

lacklustrous1834

boring1839

featureless1839

slow1840

sodden1853

ennuying1858

dusty1860

cabbagy1861

old1864

mouldy1876

yawnful1878

drab1880

dehydrated1884

interestless1886

jay1889

boresome1895

stodgy1895

stuffy1895

yawnsome1900

sludgy1901

draggy1922

blah1937

nowhere1940

drack1945

stupefactive1970

schleppy1978

wack1986

1895 Brit. Weekly 28 Mar. 370/1 There are experiences which grave the brow in spite of a man. But, on the other hand, to grow stodgy is no mark of grace.

1904 S. Macnaughtan Gift ii. ii. 127 The wedding was a stodgy affair.

1905 E. Glyn Vicissitudes Evangeline 101 I have not felt like writing; these last days have been so stodgy,—sticky I was going to say! Endless infant talk!

c. figurative of a quality.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adjective] > wearisome or tedious > of a quality

stodgy1894

1894 G. Du Maurier Trilby (1895) 74 It fosters..self-respect, and not a few stodgy practical virtues as well.

d. Applied loosely to music, its performance, interpretation, etc.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > [adjective] > style of performing

ad libitum1786

extempore1795

ad lib1825

improvisational1871

magadized1901

jazzed1917

jazzified1920

stomping1927

in the (or a) groove1932

stodgy1934

groovy1937

swinging1955

riffing1960

Muzaked1962

funkified1974

noodly1981

widdly1984

scratch-mix1987

1934 C. Lambert Music Ho! v. 294 The stodgy and academic imagination of Verklarte Nacht.

1959 Times 12 Jan. 12/3 It was surprising that Miss Puppulo was so stodgy in some early miniatures at the start of the programme.

1974 Early Music 2 81 It is so easy..for four viols to be too stodgy.

1978 R. Donington in J. M. Thomson Future of Early Music in Britain 14 The dodge..is to get that massive resonance without sounding in the least thick and opaque and stodgy and Straussian.

3. Of a person: bulky in figure (usually connoting stiffness and clumsiness in movement).

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > broad shape or physique > [adjective]

stalworthc1175

thicka1250

stubblea1300

quarryc1300

stalworthyc1300

stoura1350

sturdyc1386

buirdlya1400

squarec1430

couragec1440

craskc1440

substantialc1460

ample1485

stalwart1508

puddinga1540

full-bodied1588

robust1666

two-handed1687

swankinga1704

strapping1707

broad-set1708

thick-set1724

throddy?1748

thick-bodied1752

broad-built1771

junky1825

swankie1838

stodgy1854

wide-bodied1854

beefish1882

hunky1911

buff1982

buffed1986

1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 299 He's a stodgy little man.

1879 J. Payn High Spirits (ed. 2) I. 208 He was a stodgy, pursy, plethoric old fellow.

1895 Cent. Mag. Feb. 540 The stodgy plumpness of John Bull.

4. Of things: bulky, ‘fat’, distended.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > extension in space > expansion or enlargement > [adjective] > distending > distended

tautc1330

distent?1606

outstretcheda1616

distended1697

stent1789

stodgy1860

bestented-

1860 ‘G. Eliot’ Mill on Floss I. i. v. 54 ‘You don't know what I've got in my pockets,’... ‘No,’ said Maggie. ‘How stodgy they look.’

Derivatives

ˈstodgily adv.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adverb] > in wearisome or tedious manner

irksomely1549

tediously1557

leaden-like1574

drearily1579

dully1600

Welshly1629

unlively1641

woodenly1653

stupidly1723

uninterestingly1793

soporifically1807

sloomy1820

wearyingly1829

boringly1840

tiresomely1847

aridly1883

drably1891

stuffily1894

stodgily1904

yawnsomely1908

yawnfully1914

1904 Sat. Rev. 2 Jan. 18/2 Subjects..when handled stodgily are not worth reproducing.

ˈstodginess n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [noun] > state or quality of being wearisome or tedious

irksomeness1533

wearisomeness1579

inanity1603

tediositya1625

drynessa1637

unliveliness1643

flatness1649

tedium1662

tiresomeness1668

aridity1692

languor1741

dullness1751

uninterestingness1794

ponderousness1801

yawniness1805

unimpressiveness1827

slowness1828

grey1830

fadeness1837

woodenness1854

tristeness1866

boresomeness1883

boringness1893

stodginess1899

monochrome1962

1899 Pall Mall Gaz. 31 July 4/1 That portion of the reading public which likes its fiction solid even to stodginess.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	stodgy
释义	stodgyadj. Brit. /ˈstɒdʒi/, U.S. /ˈstɑdʒi/ Etymology: < stodge v. + -y suffix¹. 1. a. Of a thick, semi-solid consistency. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > viscosity > [adjective] thickc888 toughc1000 cleavingc1350 gluey1382 gluish1382 gleiming1387 gummya1398 clammy1398 gleimy1398 viscosec1400 viscousc1400 emplastic?a1425 plastery?c1425 stiffc1430 clamc1440 engleimous?c1475 rawky1509 rich1535 clammish1543 limy1552 strong1560 glutinous1576 cloggy1587 emplastical1590 viscuous1603 plasterish1610 slaba1616 bound1635 viscid1635 lentous1646 spiscious1655 melleous1656 salivarious1656 glutining1658 syrupical1659 glairy1662 gummous1669 gummose1678 mellaginous1681 melligineous1684 pargety1684 sticky1688 sizy1691 dauby1697 syrupy1707 treacly?1734 glaireous1755 flabbyc1780 spissid1782 stodgy1823 waxy1835 teery1848 treacle-like1871 viscoid1877 slauming1904 gooey1906 gloopy1929 gunky1937 gungy1962 yucky1975 1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 400 Stodjy, thick—clayey—clogsome. Such as a heavy road. 1887 W. D. Parish & W. F. Shaw Dict. Kentish Dial. Stodgy, thick; glutinous; muddy. ‘The church path's got middlin' stodgy.’ b. Of food, esp. of farinaceous food: thick, glutinous. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consistency of food > [adjective] > stiff or thick standingc1400 chargeantc1425 woolly1687 clunch1776 stodgya1852 a1852 W. T. Spurdens Forby's Vocab. E. Anglia (1858) III. 49 Stodgy, thick, as porridge: pulmentum crassum. 1866 London Rev. 2 June 608/2 A stodgy mass of paste in which potatoes and odds and ends of food have been mixed. a1890 R. F. Burton in I. Burton Life R. F. Burton (1893) I. 74 This cannibal meal was succeeded by stodgy pudding. 1906 O. C. Malvery Soul Market ix. 156 The meat was almost raw, the potatoes stodgy. c. Of food or a meal: heavy, solid, hard to ‘get through’. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consistency of food > [adjective] > stodgy dunch1824 stodgy1884 1884 Harper's Mag. Oct. 709/2 The stodgy table d'hôte. 1889 C. Keene in Life (1892) xiii. 409 It's a stodgy feed—soup, fish, flesh, and fowl, etc. 2. figurative. Dull, heavy; wanting in gaiety or brightness. a. of literary composition, a subject of conversation, etc. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > weakness or feebleness > [adjective] > dull tedious1412 weary1549 plumbeousa1586 ungayed1670 deserta1674 prosaic1692 pedestrian1716 languishing1741 unglittering1813 prosy1837 urned1849 monotone1862 bluebooky1872 stodgy1874 pedestrial1941 1874 L. Troubridge Life amongst Troubridges (1966) 89 We had meant to play Rats and Ferrets, but we had to begin a stodgy game of Old Maid. 1885 C. M. Yonge Nuttie's Father i. x. 111 One of the stodgey [sic] old clergymen in books. 1887 Longman's Mag. May 107 The most merciless and interminable romance that ever lowered the circulation of a magazine, and then appeared in three stodgy volumes. 1895 Jowett in L. A. Tollemache Benjamin Jowett 8 I must make a bargain with you that, when we take a walk together, you don't put more than one of your stodgy questions! 1906 ‘G. Thorne’ First it was Ordained 106 In England, art must be obvious and stodgy before people think it's respectable. 1907 Academy 28 Sept. 948 Stodgy sonnets to the moon. 1976 J. I. M. Stewart Memorial Service ii. 24 The stodgy lime-streaked effigy of Provost Harbage..is really more congruous with the spirit of the place. 1977 National Observer (U.S.) 1 Jan. 5/4 It was a stodgy old company when he came to it as president of the international division. 1977 Time 31 Jan. 13/2 Leidigkeit, 38, has brought scandal and notoriety to Bonn's Ermekeil Strasse, formerly a quiet, slightly stodgy row of shops, middle-class town houses and student flats. b. of a person, ceremony, one's life. Also applied to other objects, activities, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adjective] > wearisome or tedious dreicha1300 alangec1330 joylessa1400 tedious1412 wearifulc1454 weary1465 laboriousa1475 tiresome?a1513 irksome1513 wearisome1530 woodena1566 irkful1570 flat1573 leaden1593 barren1600 soaked1600 unlively1608 dulla1616 irking1629 drearisome1633 drear1645 plumbous1651 fatigable1656 dreary1667 uncurious1685 unenlivened1692 blank1726 disinteresting1737 stupid1748 stagnant1749 trist?1756 vegetable1757 borish1766 uninteresting1769 unenlivening1774 oorie1787 wearying1796 subjectless1803 yawny1805 wearing1811 stuffy1813 sloomy1820 tediousome1823 arid1827 lacklustrous1834 boring1839 featureless1839 slow1840 sodden1853 ennuying1858 dusty1860 cabbagy1861 old1864 mouldy1876 yawnful1878 drab1880 dehydrated1884 interestless1886 jay1889 boresome1895 stodgy1895 stuffy1895 yawnsome1900 sludgy1901 draggy1922 blah1937 nowhere1940 drack1945 stupefactive1970 schleppy1978 wack1986 1895 Brit. Weekly 28 Mar. 370/1 There are experiences which grave the brow in spite of a man. But, on the other hand, to grow stodgy is no mark of grace. 1904 S. Macnaughtan Gift ii. ii. 127 The wedding was a stodgy affair. 1905 E. Glyn Vicissitudes Evangeline 101 I have not felt like writing; these last days have been so stodgy,—sticky I was going to say! Endless infant talk! c. figurative of a quality. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adjective] > wearisome or tedious > of a quality stodgy1894 1894 G. Du Maurier Trilby (1895) 74 It fosters..self-respect, and not a few stodgy practical virtues as well. d. Applied loosely to music, its performance, interpretation, etc. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > [adjective] > style of performing ad libitum1786 extempore1795 ad lib1825 improvisational1871 magadized1901 jazzed1917 jazzified1920 stomping1927 in the (or a) groove1932 stodgy1934 groovy1937 swinging1955 riffing1960 Muzaked1962 funkified1974 noodly1981 widdly1984 scratch-mix1987 1934 C. Lambert Music Ho! v. 294 The stodgy and academic imagination of Verklarte Nacht. 1959 Times 12 Jan. 12/3 It was surprising that Miss Puppulo was so stodgy in some early miniatures at the start of the programme. 1974 Early Music 2 81 It is so easy..for four viols to be too stodgy. 1978 R. Donington in J. M. Thomson Future of Early Music in Britain 14 The dodge..is to get that massive resonance without sounding in the least thick and opaque and stodgy and Straussian. 3. Of a person: bulky in figure (usually connoting stiffness and clumsiness in movement). ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > broad shape or physique > [adjective] stalworthc1175 thicka1250 stubblea1300 quarryc1300 stalworthyc1300 stoura1350 sturdyc1386 buirdlya1400 squarec1430 couragec1440 craskc1440 substantialc1460 ample1485 stalwart1508 puddinga1540 full-bodied1588 robust1666 two-handed1687 swankinga1704 strapping1707 broad-set1708 thick-set1724 throddy?1748 thick-bodied1752 broad-built1771 junky1825 swankie1838 stodgy1854 wide-bodied1854 beefish1882 hunky1911 buff1982 buffed1986 1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 299 He's a stodgy little man. 1879 J. Payn High Spirits (ed. 2) I. 208 He was a stodgy, pursy, plethoric old fellow. 1895 Cent. Mag. Feb. 540 The stodgy plumpness of John Bull. 4. Of things: bulky, ‘fat’, distended. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > expansion or enlargement > [adjective] > distending > distended tautc1330 distent?1606 outstretcheda1616 distended1697 stent1789 stodgy1860 bestented- 1860 ‘G. Eliot’ Mill on Floss I. i. v. 54 ‘You don't know what I've got in my pockets,’... ‘No,’ said Maggie. ‘How stodgy they look.’ Derivatives ˈstodgily adv. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adverb] > in wearisome or tedious manner irksomely1549 tediously1557 leaden-like1574 drearily1579 dully1600 Welshly1629 unlively1641 woodenly1653 stupidly1723 uninterestingly1793 soporifically1807 sloomy1820 wearyingly1829 boringly1840 tiresomely1847 aridly1883 drably1891 stuffily1894 stodgily1904 yawnsomely1908 yawnfully1914 1904 Sat. Rev. 2 Jan. 18/2 Subjects..when handled stodgily are not worth reproducing. ˈstodginess n. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [noun] > state or quality of being wearisome or tedious irksomeness1533 wearisomeness1579 inanity1603 tediositya1625 drynessa1637 unliveliness1643 flatness1649 tedium1662 tiresomeness1668 aridity1692 languor1741 dullness1751 uninterestingness1794 ponderousness1801 yawniness1805 unimpressiveness1827 slowness1828 grey1830 fadeness1837 woodenness1854 tristeness1866 boresomeness1883 boringness1893 stodginess1899 monochrome1962 1899 Pall Mall Gaz. 31 July 4/1 That portion of the reading public which likes its fiction solid even to stodginess. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1823
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