fuddy-duddyism

English

Etymology

fuddy-duddy +‎ -ism

Noun

fuddy-duddyism (uncountable)

1. Attitudes and behaviors characteristic of a fuddy-duddy; a tendency toward overly conservative persnicketiness.
   • 1967, Robert Cillier Page, How to Lick Executive Stress, page 22:

     Don't be fooled by the old wives' tale that creeping fuddy-duddyism has something to do with hardening of the arteries.

   • 2001, Philip R. Craig, Vineyard Blues, →ISBN, page 71:

     As one who was born disliking most of whatever music was currently popular—preferring country-and-western and classical, and having a selective taste for traditional English, Scottish, Irish, and Russian ballads, some jazz and some blues—I did not instantly admit to fuddy-duddyism.

   • 2012, Patricia Suzanne Sullivan, Experimental Writing in Composition: Aesthetics and Pedagogies, →ISBN, page 19:

     Yet it is also true that the position Tobin describes—the higher moral ground from which compositionists speak “against rigidity, legalism, authoritarianism, [and] fuddy-duddyism” and speak “up for students, freedom, innovation, creativity, and change" — would assert itself again and again in the arguments for experimental writing in composition classrooms, arguments put forth in a kind of second-wave expressivism by compositionists such as Winston Weathers, Wendy Bishop, Lillian Bridwell-Bowles, Derek Owens, and Geoffrey Sirc, among others.