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fuddy-duddy

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
fuddy-duddy/ˈfʌdidʌdi/

▶noun (pl. fuddy-duddies) informal a person who is very old-fashioned and pompous.

– origin early 20th cent. (orig. dial.): of unknown origin.

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