stick-in-the-mud

1. 1.

   someone who moves slowly

   “in England they call a slowpoke a slowcoach”

   Synonymsplodderslowpokeslowcoach

   Broaderdawdler

1. 1.

   (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned

   “moss-grown ideas about family life”

   Synonymsfogyishmoss-grownmossystodgy

   Similarunfashionable

Questions about stick-in-the-mud

What does stick-in-the-mud mean?

stick-in-the-mud means "someone who moves slowly". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in stick-in-the-mud?

stick-in-the-mud has 4 syllables: stic-k-in--the--mud. The stress falls on "k-in-".

What is another word for stick-in-the-mud?

Close synonyms include plodder, slowpoke, slowcoach, fogyish, moss-grown. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is stick-in-the-mud a common word?

stick-in-the-mud is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.