STODGE Synonyms: 16 Similar and Opposite Words

stodge

noun

Definition of stodge

British

as in fogy

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Recent Examples of stodge Dean’s is part of a wave of restaurants—Sailor, Lord’s, Dame—that have pointedly reframed British gastronomy for a New York audience that perhaps believed too readily in the myth of English stodge. — Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 17 May 2026 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

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Noun

There’s no old fogey-ness to Lorne.

— David Fear, Rolling Stone, 20 Apr. 2026
For the benefit of us old fogies?

— Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2026

Definition of fogy

Noun

One only has to think about the British fight against Nazism to be reminded that it was made of imperialists, constitutionalists, stick-in-the-mud aristocrats, and the socialists who first helped put Winston Churchill into power and then five years later helped push him out again.

— Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 8 June 2026
But opposing him is Stagg, a Scottish, stick-in-the-mud academic (which is saying a lot by most weather men’s personality standards), who insists on making the team’s joint recommendation exclusively using the current observational data available to Allied forces.

— Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 26 May 2026

Definition of stick-in-the-mud

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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

Definition of troglodyte

Noun

The City of Boulder and Boulder County, Colorado, in 2018 sued major fossil-fuel producers Exxon Mobil and Suncor Energy, seeking financial damages under state public nuisance law.

— ABC News, ABC News, 5 Oct. 2026
Ozone, which is made up of three oxygen atoms, forms when emissions of other pollutants such as carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxides from fossil-fuel burning or wildfires mix with sunlight and heat.

— Mary Randolph, Scientific American, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of fossil

Noun

How consumers -- especially younger drinkers -- answer them will determine whether an industry long defined by fuddy-duddy pretense can find its footing in 2026 and beyond.

— ABC News, ABC News, 22 June 2026
In the years that followed, American landscape painting was shuffled off to storage to make room for modernism, and paintings like Church’s, with their glassy finishes and profuse detail, came to seem the embodiment of fuddy-duddy.

— Susan Tallman, The Atlantic, 13 June 2026

Definition of fuddy-duddy

Noun

It may be branded a Gen Z series, but FX’s Adults is sneakily quite a throwback.

— Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 2 Oct. 2026
And then there’s Chandler Simpson, a throwback speedster who led the AL with 46 steals and is an absolute weapon/distraction on the bases.

— Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of throwback

Noun

Running toward change to avoid going the way of the dodo is a theme throughout this issue.

— Alyson Shontell, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2026
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) are putting the antiquated bed dressing back on the map.

— Shoko Wanger, Architectural Digest, 3 Aug. 2026

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