fuddy-duddery
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The ban on splitting infinitives is fuddy-duddery, pure and simple."
- "Now nothing would have been easier than to let all this sag into a compendium of antiquarian fuddy-duddery. Instead, the dry bones stir into flesh-and-blood issues vital to our time."
- "Thank you and congratulations for your invigorating articles on decimal coinage and the reform of our national accounts (January 18th issue) - two notable blows in the fight against fuddy-duddery!"
- ""Do you believe in this outmoded piece of fuddy-duddery called monogamy, eh? Or would you agree that some men should have more than one wife?""
Etymology
From fuddy-duddy + -ery.