stick-in-the-mud

[ stik-in-thuh-muhd ]

noun

1. someone who avoids new activities, ideas, or attitudes; old fogy.

stick-in-the-mud

noun

1. informal.
   a staid or predictably conservative person who lacks initiative or imagination

Word History and Origins

Origin of stick-in-the-mud¹

First recorded in 1725–35

Example Sentences

To tell the truth, my third share of the old Stick-in-the-Mud is gone.

From Project Gutenberg

Sotto voce he remarked to Scraggs: "I see him slippin' a three hundred dollar hawser, eh, Scraggsy, old stick-in-the-mud?"

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I suppose you didn't hear the news, you are such an old stick-in-the-mud.

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Now that's just the kind of fine old crusted pig-headed Conservativism that's kept this the stick-in-the-mud Country it is!

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"They begun to call us heroes an' old stick-in-the-mud just about the same time," resumed Stover, with a chuckle.

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