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Definition of stodgy in English: stodgyadjectivestodgier, stodgiest ˈstɒdʒiˈstɑdʒi British 1(of food) heavy, filling, and high in carbohydrates. Example sentencesExamples - Lumpy custard, stodgy stew and cold mashed potato used to be stock jokes in British playgrounds about old-style school dinners.
- Only the sizzling Mongolian lamb hotpot, mayo-slaughtered wasabi prawns, the stodgy dumplings and leaden-battered soft-shell crab were truly terrible.
- Our dining establishment, The Riverside Cafe, was just what you need on a cold rainy day - puddings and stodgy meals galore, with nary a vegetable in sight.
- I would suggest replacing the breadcrumbs with rice or couscous, which are less stodgy, and again varies the grain away from bread.
- Britain was once the nation of a notoriously dowdy pallet - stodgy pies, marmite, and spaghetti on toast.
- The stodgy food and physical inactivity meant that chronic constipation was universal; and most patients looked as if they had filtered their food through their shirts, blouses, and sweaters.
- Detox your cupboards and fridge of stodgy, calorie-packed winter comfort food
- Expecting some stodgy Slavic comfort food, I was surprised to get deep-fried fish goujons with sweet and sour sauce.
- Restaurants so often let themselves down at the last by serving unimaginative or downright stodgy desserts.
- It is published just after Christmas, to boot, when we have all each eaten so much stodgy food that we require four attempts to get up from the sofa.
- We might have returned to our un-distinguished pre-war cuisine, or another writer might have rescued us from overcooked cabbage and stodgy puddings.
- That turned out to be the start of an afternoon of stodgy chocolate cake, sugary donuts and a bag of free pastries from the coffee shop where they're getting to know our order before we even give it.
- And the desserts are an oddly dismal lot, from an apple pie in which the fruit is stiff, the crust sodden, to a stodgy strawberry shortcake on hard, stale biscuits.
- At this time of year, around when the clocks go back, I start to feel really tired and depressed, and I find myself binging on stodgy foods and then I put on pounds.
- Their salted and smoked meat was useful to give savour to otherwise stodgy dishes, and was especially important for the poor.
- Two tarts, with the sort of over-refrigerated, crunch-free pastry that you get on supermarket tarts (wavy edge included), the pastry of similar thickness to the stodgy filling which had cracked on top.
- If you fancy a pudding, make sure it's not something stodgy that could leave you sluggish and immobile.
- Yorkshire food is traditionally seen as staid and stodgy, but can be modern and exciting.
- No stodgy sandwiches, lukewarm tea or coffee from a flask.
- Lunch will not be a bowl of additive-laden, over-salty canned soup or a stodgy sandwich thickly smeared with butter.
Synonyms indigestible, starchy, filling, heavy, solid, substantial, lumpy, leaden - 1.1 Dull and uninspired; lacking originality or excitement.
some of the material is rather stodgy and top-heavy with facts Example sentencesExamples - Samsung has transformed itself from a stodgy Asian original-equipment manufacturer into one of the hottest brands in the world.
- On the cultural end, I found that people in either city were quite ready to dismiss the production of the rival town as stodgy and unimaginative, or conversely, flashy and empty.
- There are still a great many stodgy lumps of plot exposition to digest, but this time around they don't seem quite as long-winded and interfere less with the overall pace of the story-telling.
- Although some of the reviews complain that the film lacks Austen's social observation and complexity of characterisation, this just confirms my view that most film reviewers are rather stodgy.
- Ironically the only covers which seem to fall flat here are the film tie-in editions which look stodgy next to the originally designed covers.
- The openness of the new economy promised by the Internet strikes fear across the mahogany board tables of Japan Inc., threatening the cozy existence of stodgy, old economy companies.
- White players are perceived as the athletic equivalent of white businessmen and politicians: stodgy, dull and disciplined.
- Mastering Data Modeling is an innovative book that treats with humor a subject that is so often stodgy and dull.
- Most of my students used informal, asymmetrical balance, as formal balance can seem stodgy and dull.
- Otherwise, it's a great track that, even despite the film's 3-hour running time, never becomes stodgy or boring.
- Any criticisms of England's boring and stodgy play were crushed as the team surged forward, sending The Walkabout crowd into a screaming frenzy.
- There's something about the stodgy, unimaginative tunes and sweet-as-a-bucket-of-syrup lyrics that somehow feel like being served an enormous hot breakfast.
- I know that the kids lap up every last bit of detail, and they are the prime readership after all, but for me it's a rather stodgy and tedious read.
- Conversely, great skiing can't compensate for stodgy service or uninspiring interiors.
- Anyone holding the view that history is by definition boring and stodgy stuff will be heartened and intrigued by this account.
- It is said with truth that Australia assumed the stodgy aspects of nineteenth century British life.
- The two aunts, originally meant to be stodgy and throwbacks to the Victorian age, come across immediately as warm, lovable eccentrics.
- Boring, stodgy natural gas companies were one major economic player ignored in the tech boom.
- ‘When we moved the 10, everyone said the dull and stodgy BBC would get hammered every night by ITN,’ he said.
- Right now, compared with everything else that's happening on the Web, AOL is boring, stodgy, and stuck in the mud.
Synonyms boring, dull, uninteresting, dreary, deadly prosaic, staid, sedate stuffy, pompous, conventional informal fuddy-duddy, square boring, dull, deadly dull, dull as ditchwater, uninteresting, dreary, turgid, tedious, dry, wearisome, heavy-going, unimaginative, uninspired, unexciting, unoriginal, derivative, monotonous, humdrum laboured, wooden, ponderous, plodding, pedantic, banal, verbose
Derivatives nounˈstɒdʒɪnəsˈstɑdʒinəs British Given the blather SFO dispenses about ‘modern’ and ‘contemporary’ solutions to the stodginess of opera, how disappointing is it when an apotheosis, written into the music, is funked by the production team? Example sentencesExamples - Not in the mood for stodginess, I'd opted for the Akhini Chicken, a mild dish with pineapple, almonds and sultanas.
- They also sensed that the music promised, or symbolised, a release from the nineteenth-century bourgeois stodginess which had somehow culminated in the war.
- With growth and stability has come stodginess, predictability and excessive caution.
- He produces a familiar litany of complaints about the Review: stodginess, Anglophilia, nonchalance toward younger contributors.
adverb British His work is a testament to the artist's need to clarify and baffle - and a reproach to the present, when ‘independent’ now means a stodgily narrative film with a slot at Sundance and a chance to get it released by Miramax. Example sentencesExamples - For the most part, however, it's content to coast by on the romantic-adventure premise stodgily laid out in an uninspired screenplay.
- Though undeniably talented, Martin exhibits a hesitant sense of what separates the singingly oral from the stodgily ordinary.
- The hardware engravings themselves often seem to have been collected with the tastes of particular overseas markets in mind, and can contain a mixture of the stodgily old-fashioned and the frivolously up-to-date to please all tastes.
- You get your hero's origin sequence, decent overview of his costume and civilian life, stodgily staged romance, plus two of the comic series' better baddies.
Definition of stodgy in US English: stodgyadjectiveˈstäjēˈstɑdʒi 1Dull and uninspired. some of the material is rather stodgy and top-heavy with facts Example sentencesExamples - Samsung has transformed itself from a stodgy Asian original-equipment manufacturer into one of the hottest brands in the world.
- Ironically the only covers which seem to fall flat here are the film tie-in editions which look stodgy next to the originally designed covers.
- Although some of the reviews complain that the film lacks Austen's social observation and complexity of characterisation, this just confirms my view that most film reviewers are rather stodgy.
- Boring, stodgy natural gas companies were one major economic player ignored in the tech boom.
- It is said with truth that Australia assumed the stodgy aspects of nineteenth century British life.
- Any criticisms of England's boring and stodgy play were crushed as the team surged forward, sending The Walkabout crowd into a screaming frenzy.
- There's something about the stodgy, unimaginative tunes and sweet-as-a-bucket-of-syrup lyrics that somehow feel like being served an enormous hot breakfast.
- ‘When we moved the 10, everyone said the dull and stodgy BBC would get hammered every night by ITN,’ he said.
- Otherwise, it's a great track that, even despite the film's 3-hour running time, never becomes stodgy or boring.
- Most of my students used informal, asymmetrical balance, as formal balance can seem stodgy and dull.
- The openness of the new economy promised by the Internet strikes fear across the mahogany board tables of Japan Inc., threatening the cozy existence of stodgy, old economy companies.
- On the cultural end, I found that people in either city were quite ready to dismiss the production of the rival town as stodgy and unimaginative, or conversely, flashy and empty.
- Mastering Data Modeling is an innovative book that treats with humor a subject that is so often stodgy and dull.
- Right now, compared with everything else that's happening on the Web, AOL is boring, stodgy, and stuck in the mud.
- There are still a great many stodgy lumps of plot exposition to digest, but this time around they don't seem quite as long-winded and interfere less with the overall pace of the story-telling.
- Anyone holding the view that history is by definition boring and stodgy stuff will be heartened and intrigued by this account.
- I know that the kids lap up every last bit of detail, and they are the prime readership after all, but for me it's a rather stodgy and tedious read.
- White players are perceived as the athletic equivalent of white businessmen and politicians: stodgy, dull and disciplined.
- The two aunts, originally meant to be stodgy and throwbacks to the Victorian age, come across immediately as warm, lovable eccentrics.
- Conversely, great skiing can't compensate for stodgy service or uninspiring interiors.
Synonyms boring, dull, uninteresting, dreary, deadly boring, dull, deadly dull, dull as ditchwater, uninteresting, dreary, turgid, tedious, dry, wearisome, heavy-going, unimaginative, uninspired, unexciting, unoriginal, derivative, monotonous, humdrum 2British (of food) heavy, filling, and high in carbohydrates. Example sentencesExamples - The stodgy food and physical inactivity meant that chronic constipation was universal; and most patients looked as if they had filtered their food through their shirts, blouses, and sweaters.
- Yorkshire food is traditionally seen as staid and stodgy, but can be modern and exciting.
- No stodgy sandwiches, lukewarm tea or coffee from a flask.
- Restaurants so often let themselves down at the last by serving unimaginative or downright stodgy desserts.
- I would suggest replacing the breadcrumbs with rice or couscous, which are less stodgy, and again varies the grain away from bread.
- Britain was once the nation of a notoriously dowdy pallet - stodgy pies, marmite, and spaghetti on toast.
- Our dining establishment, The Riverside Cafe, was just what you need on a cold rainy day - puddings and stodgy meals galore, with nary a vegetable in sight.
- Expecting some stodgy Slavic comfort food, I was surprised to get deep-fried fish goujons with sweet and sour sauce.
- Lunch will not be a bowl of additive-laden, over-salty canned soup or a stodgy sandwich thickly smeared with butter.
- We might have returned to our un-distinguished pre-war cuisine, or another writer might have rescued us from overcooked cabbage and stodgy puddings.
- Their salted and smoked meat was useful to give savour to otherwise stodgy dishes, and was especially important for the poor.
- At this time of year, around when the clocks go back, I start to feel really tired and depressed, and I find myself binging on stodgy foods and then I put on pounds.
- And the desserts are an oddly dismal lot, from an apple pie in which the fruit is stiff, the crust sodden, to a stodgy strawberry shortcake on hard, stale biscuits.
- That turned out to be the start of an afternoon of stodgy chocolate cake, sugary donuts and a bag of free pastries from the coffee shop where they're getting to know our order before we even give it.
- It is published just after Christmas, to boot, when we have all each eaten so much stodgy food that we require four attempts to get up from the sofa.
- Lumpy custard, stodgy stew and cold mashed potato used to be stock jokes in British playgrounds about old-style school dinners.
- Two tarts, with the sort of over-refrigerated, crunch-free pastry that you get on supermarket tarts (wavy edge included), the pastry of similar thickness to the stodgy filling which had cracked on top.
- If you fancy a pudding, make sure it's not something stodgy that could leave you sluggish and immobile.
- Only the sizzling Mongolian lamb hotpot, mayo-slaughtered wasabi prawns, the stodgy dumplings and leaden-battered soft-shell crab were truly terrible.
- Detox your cupboards and fridge of stodgy, calorie-packed winter comfort food
Synonyms indigestible, starchy, filling, heavy, solid, substantial, lumpy, leaden
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