stodgy
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7.5
- adjective
- /ˈstədʒi/
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- The business began to fail when the son stuck with the stodgy menu; everyone—Denny's, Marriott, Big Boy—diversified.
Examples
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His lips were pursed, his cheeks were swollen, his fingers were kneading the stodgy flesh of his paunch.
Fiction book (1996) -
She had expected Jordan to look more like her image of an ophthalmologist; that he'd be older, heavier, stodgy, and far less attractive.
Fiction book (1992) -
I felt stodgy in my printed shirtdress.
Fiction book (1991) -
I enjoyed school and the gastronomic pleasure of one glass of milk and the four stodgy "vitamin cookies" given to schoolchildren during break.
Academic text (2006) -
She ate at the Bay Arms Restaurant, a stodgy, heavily draped and carpeted establishment, where all the other tables were occupied by families in church clothes.
Fiction book (1995) -
Mary knows the whole stony arena so well that at first even the film director carrying on behind her doesn't disturb the stodgy warmth with which she waits, almost asleep in her pew, for the Host to come around.
Fiction book (1996) -
Wright is best known for these types of award-hungry prestige pictures, and even with Anna Karenina he can't fully avoid a certain amount of stodgy tastefulness.
Blog text (15) -
After a long day, I found the stodgy pasta too heavy to enjoy.
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The meal was so stodgy that I couldn't finish my serving.
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He complained that the restaurant's stodgy dishes made him feel overly full.
Synonyms
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1.1
A wet, heavy, doughy texture in cooked food
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7.1
Having a dry, powdery texture like ground grain
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4.6
Soft and slightly sticky inside like undercooked bread
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3.0
Food that contains a lot of starch, like potatoes or bread
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6.0
Food or things that the stomach cannot break down easily
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4.1
A soft, dense, slightly chewy texture like thick chocolate candy
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6.6
Slow, heavy music with a thick, distorted sound
Containing a lot of carbs, like bread or pasta
A dry, powdery feel like flour that comes from a lot of starch
A thick, not runny texture in food like soup or sauce
Antonyms
How Filling
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Stodgy comes from the old noun stodge, which meant 'thick' or 'heavy' food. So stodgy food is the kind that feels heavy in your stomach and is hard to digest.