fuddy-duddery en · NOUN
Etymology
From fuddy-duddy + -ery.
Meanings
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(uncountable) An action or view associated with a fuddy-duddy.
Thank you and congratulations for your invigorating articles on decimal coinage and the reform of our national accounts (January 18th issue) - two notable blows in the fight against fuddy-duddery!
1958, N. K. Easton, “Appreciation”, in The Accountant, volume 138, page 135:"Do you believe in this outmoded piece of fuddy-duddery called monogamy, eh? Or would you agree that some men should have more than one wife?"
1973, Fergus Macpherson, One Finger, page 175:Now nothing would have been easier than to let all this sag into a compendium of antiquarian fuddy-duddery. Instead, the dry bones stir into flesh-and-blood issues vital to our time.
1936, “The Man of the Month: Samuel Eliot Morison”, in The Atlantic, volume 158, page 384:The ban on splitting infinitives is fuddy-duddery, pure and simple.