Definitions for stodgy

stodgy stodg·y

Spelling: [stoj-ee]
IPA: /ˈstɒdʒ i/

Stodgy is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 75 anagrams from letters in stodgy (dgosty).

Definitions for stodgy

adjective

  1. heavy, dull, or uninteresting; tediously commonplace; boring:
  2. of a thick, semisolid consistency; heavy, as food.
  3. stocky; thick-set.
  4. old-fashioned; unduly formal and traditional:
  5. dull; graceless; inelegant:

Origin of stodgy

First recorded in 1815-25; stodge + -y1

Examples for stodgy

My first thought was, “Wow, what an incredibly bold purchase for a stodgy auto exec.”

It was, he says, “a stodgy and old-fashioned discipline” when he entered it in the 1980s.

So let us hear no more complaints of stodgy, clammy, “puddingy” rice.

The mix of small, stodgy businesses and glamorous retailers worked for another decade—until 2009, when the bottom fell out again.

It would have been artificial, and stodgy, too, to call her "your present wife."

The TV critics largely sided with Conan, now with TBS, because they deem Leno to be a bland and stodgy comic.

“I guess I felt it to be stodgy, self-satisfied, maybe a little dull,” he confesses.

But our foggy English climate and stodgy people call for it.

Was this new and stodgy edition of The Raven going to stay forever?

Norway is the home of the Ibsenian or stodgy, as distinguished from the stagey, Drama.

Word Value for stodgy
Scrable

11

Words with friends

11

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