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Synonyms & Antonyms of Colonel Blimp
a person with old-fashioned ideas
- felt like a Colonel Blimp when it came to how his grandchildren communicated with each other
Synonyms for Colonel Blimp
- antediluvian,
- dodo,
- fogy
- (also fogey),
- fossil,
- fud,
- fuddy-duddy,
- mossback,
- reactionary,
- stick-in-the-mud,
- stuffed shirt
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“Colonel Blimp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Colonel%20Blimp. Accessed 3 Jul. 2022.
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The first known use of Colonel Blimp was in 1938
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