fuddy-duddyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Unknown. First attested in the US circa 1900.

発音

• IPA: /ˈfʌdiˌdʌdi/
• 韻: -ʌdi

名詞

fuddy-duddy (plural fuddy-duddies)

1. (US, informal) An old-fashioned, persnickety or ineffective person.

   My grandma is a fuddy-duddy when it comes to keeping her house clean.

派生語

• fuddy-duddery
• fuddy-duddyish
• fuddy-duddyism
• fudd

形容詞

fuddy-duddy (comparative fuddy-duddier, superlative fuddy-duddiest)

1. (US, informal) Old-fashioned and persnickety or ineffective.
   • 2015, Mary Ellen Snodgrass, Barbara Kingsolver: A Literary Companion, McFarland, →ISBN, page 4:

     Kingsolver lives by the tenets of her public-spirited fictional characters, whom she sculpts with a keen eye for individuality, e.g. Nannie Land Rawley, a seventy-something orchardist who shocks a fuddy-duddy male neighbor by wearing shorts, […]

派生語