Definitions
excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull
Word origin
Unknown, but possibly from stodge (“to stuff”), from stog, or a blend of stuffy + podgy.
Used in a sentence
“I gave up trying to get that stodgy club to try anything new.”
“Safer! Good lord! what could you have safer than a stodgy second-rate boarding-house in Hapsburg Square? The place drones respectability.”
““. . . Why! Why! Why is the middle-class so stodgy—so utterly without a sense of humour! My dear, it's only by a fluke that I am here at all—Norman being the protective fluke.””
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Dull and heavy”6 letters
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