- heavy, dull, or uninteresting; tediously commonplace; boring: a stodgy Victorian novel.
- of a thick, semisolid consistency; heavy, as food.
- stocky; thick-set.
- old-fashioned; unduly formal and traditional: a stodgy old gentleman.
- dull; graceless; inelegant: a stodgy business suit.
- (of food) heavy or uninteresting
- excessively formal and conventional
