stodgy
Adjective Satellite
- heavy and starchy and hard to digest
- "stodgy food"
- "a stodgy pudding served up when everyone was already full"
- (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned
- 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"
Adj
- Dull, old-fashioned.
- Having a thick, semi-solid consistency; glutinous; heavy on the stomach.
- Badly put together.
Adjective
- Dull, uninspired, or lacking in excitement.
Examples
- His stodgy opening plays meant he was slow to build momentum in Words With Friends.
- I gave up trying to get that stodgy club to try anything new.
Origin / Etymology
Unknown, but possibly from stodge (“to stuff”), from stog, or a blend of stuffy + podgy.
Scrabble Score: 11
stodgy: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordstodgy: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
stodgy: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 11
stodgy: valid Words With Friends Word