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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. An old-fashioned, fussy person.

Wiktionary

  1. n. US, informal An old-fashioned, persnickety or ineffective person.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a conservative who is old-fashioned or dull in attitude or appearance

Etymologies

  1. Unknown, c. 1900 US (Wiktionary)
  2. Origin unknown. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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