stodge

Definition of stodgenext
British

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of stodge In the oven, the zucchini gave enough liquid to finish cooking the rice, and the cream was a more delicate binder than roux, which so frequently turns a gratin into stodge. New York Times, 27 Aug. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stodge
Noun
  • Old fogey-ish, ungrateful and stupid.
    Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 10 Sep. 2025
  • These are people who know AI and have grown up with this stuff that these old fogies haven't.
    Alison Snyder, Axios, 23 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Bostwick starred as the naive stick-in-the-mud and fiancé of Janice, Brad.
    Skyler Trepel, PEOPLE, 31 Oct. 2025
  • In the Herbert Ross film, Bacon played big-city teen Ren McCormack, who moves to the small town of Bomont, where its stick-in-the-mud local minster, the Rev. Shaw Moore (John Lithgow), has instituted a ban on dancing.
    EW.com, EW.com, 9 Nov. 2023
Noun
  • Among the highlights is a chance to set foot on the coral island of Rurutu, with troglodyte caves and hiking routes.
    Chrissie McClatchie, Travel + Leisure, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Many wonders made the list, including royal burial grounds in Egypt, an Indonesian archipelago of 1,500 islands and Turkish cliffs formerly inhabited by Bronze Age troglodytes (cave dwellers).
    John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • This man performed in all of Shakespeare’s plays, Assumed all parts from mossbacks to boys young.
    Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Sep. 2019
Noun
  • Fungi fossils preserved in the chert contained compounds from the breakdown of chitin and glucan, key structural molecules in fungi.
    Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Among the city’s oldest institutions and one of the largest natural history museums in the American West, the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County is the place to see fantastical fossils and skeletons.
    Kathryn Romeyn, Travel + Leisure, 5 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • For someone who’s constantly on speakerphone, Tommy sure is a fuddy-duddy about using it correctly.
    William Earl, Variety, 30 Nov. 2025
  • Her characters were women whose roles often implied their own eventual replacements: teachers, fading former love interests, fuddy-duddy old-fashioned relics.
    Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • In a throwback to Bad Bunny and Balvin's special guest appearances during Jennifer Lopez and Shakira's coheadlining Super Bowl performance in 2020, the rapper could offer the same invitation.
    Taijuan Moorman, USA Today, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Back in December of 2025, Vergara posted a throwback photo on Instagram showing off her jet-black hair.
    Elle Meier, InStyle, 5 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Dust ruffles may have gone the way of the dodo after their heyday in the maximalist ’80s, but the absolute best bed skirts (done up in cottagecore ginghams and frothy sateens and linens) are putting the antiquated bed dressing back on the map.
    Shoko Wanger, Architectural Digest, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Their situation resembles that of the dodo bird, which went extinct shortly after humans arrived on its island home of Mauritius.
    GrrlScientist, Forbes.com, 7 Jan. 2026

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“Stodge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stodge. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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