fuddy-duddyism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
29
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
6
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Attitudes and behaviors characteristic of a fuddy-duddy; a tendency toward overly conservative persnicketiness.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Don't be fooled by the old wives' tale that creeping fuddy-duddyism has something to do with hardening of the arteries."
- "As one who was born disliking most of whatever music was currently popular—preferring country-and-western and classical, and having a selective taste for traditional English, Scottish, Irish, and Russian ballads, some jazz and some blues—I did not instantly admit to fuddy-duddyism."
- "Yet it is also true that the position Tobin describes—the higher moral ground from which compositionists speak “against rigidity, legalism, authoritarianism, [and] fuddy-duddyism” and speak “up for students, freedom, innovation, creativity, and change" — would assert itself again and again in the arguments for experimental writing in composition classrooms, arguments put forth in a kind of second-wave expressivism by compositionists such as Winston Weathers, Wendy Bishop, Lillian Bridwell-Bowles, Derek Owens, and Geoffrey Sirc, among others."
Etymology
From fuddy-duddy + -ism.