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Prudie--not young but not a fuddy-duddy, either--couldn't agree with you more.
Beatty's politics might be those of a hipster, but his aesthetics since Shampoo (1975) have been those of a fuddy-duddy.
NR : "It's not going to be fuddy-duddy," insists Mr. Lippincott.
Among the first group are many children's words-- Georgy-Porgy, Henny-Penny, Turkey-Lurkey, kitchy-kitchy, lippity-lippity, piggly-wiggly . Among the second are fuddy-duddy, funny-money, hoity-toity, hokey-pokey, namby-pamby, shilly-shally, silly-billy, ticky-tacky, wishy-washy , and the double cited above, willy-nilly . The power gained through rhyme and rhythm seems to be directed by the diminutive suffix toward favorable or unfavorable meanings.
The new Whitney, run by a dapper fuddy-duddy named Maxwell Anderson, who came from the Art Gallery of Ontario, is just the opposite in almost every respect.