| 单词 | stodgy |
| 释义 | stodgy 1. a. < good stodgy mud — Canadian Geographical Journal > b. < gray, stodgy war bread stuns the stomach — F.V. & Katharine Drake > 2. < the cook's a stodgy German woman, a typical hausfrau — W.H.Wright > < an occasional group of stodgy sightseers — James Higgins & Gordon Donald > 3. < these volumes are not stodgy … they are extremely readable — G.E.Gardner > < many persons … become stilted and stodgy when they put pen to paper — Raymond Walters b.1912 > 4. < out on a peaceful rather stodgy Sunday boat trip — Edna Ferber > < not tied down by … the stodgy needs of mankind — Harriot B. Barbour > 5. < received a pompously Victorian letter from his stodgy father — E.E.S.Montagu > < who had once been so eager and bright, be so stodgy now — Irwin Edman > 6. < stodgy suburbs whose rows of frame dwellings contrast sharply with … opulent mansions — American Guide Series: New York City > 7. < the clothes … look stodgy after the ones I've been seeing — Dodie Smith > 8. < much better music than the stodgy efforts of most … composers — H.C.Schonberg > |
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