Definition of stick-in-the-mud Stick-in-the-mud
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What does stick-in-the-mud mean?
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| stick-in-the-mud - (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned; "moss-grown ideas about family life" | ||
| fogyish, moss-grown, mossy, stodgy | ||
| unfashionable, unstylish not in accord with or not following current fashion; "unfashionable clothes"; "melodrama of a now unfashionable kind" | ||
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| stick-in-the-mud - someone who moves slowly; "in England they call a slowpoke a slowcoach" | ||
| plodder, slowpoke, slowcoach | ||
| dawdler, laggard, lagger, trailer, drone, poke someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind | ||
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