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stick-in-the-mud noun [ ˈstɪkɪnðəˌmʌd ]

• a person who is dull and unadventurous and who resists change.
• "they see many of their colleagues as stick-in-the-muds and sentimental neanderthals"
Similar: (old) fogey, conservative, museum piece, fossil, dinosaur, troglodyte, fuddy-duddy, square, back number, stuffed shirt, sobersides,


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