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by laobali on May 30th, 2009
"Stick-in-the-mud" was first recorded in 1733 with its still current meaning: a person who is stolid (having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited) and unimaginative, content with his lot and unprepared to make an effort to improve it.
by thatsJustme on May 30th, 2009
a"fuddy duddy"...a person who gets no enjoyment out anything....has no "fun" sense ....
" My mom is a "stick in the mud." or bully's could use of a person who would refuse to join in on something that was "against the grain" for them,"ahhhh, she's a "stick in the mud."
some people really are dull ,no sense of adventure or interest in anything...but some aren't ...the phrase is used as a goading tactic...
i have had it laid on me a few times..just said ,"u call me a stick in the mud because i won't join your taunting her? no ,thanks , i'd rather be the stick than the MUD!!:)Justme
by ShoulderPadQueen on May 29th, 2009
someone that doesnt want to have fun. lol
by Kewl Guy - has gone 360 on May 29th, 2009
someone you rather not hang around with because they are dull
by Celeste: It is what it is. Like it or not on May 30th, 2009
Dull,party pooper.*
by azlotto on May 29th, 2009
Trying to eat ice cream with chopsticks. +5
by Trissinger on May 29th, 2009
To me, (the expression aside,) it means "Treasured memories of childhood riverside play, paddle in hand as I twirl it deeper and deeper into the beach sand, creating a delightfully muddy, mostly watery mess where I could eventually place the river-captured guppies." Ahh, the memories...! :)
by uncacal on May 29th, 2009
If you are coming up the Rowley River at night on an outgoing tide, and then lose the channel, you will find out what it means to stick in the mud.
by Beavis - the other white meat on May 29th, 2009
Ummm, shouldn't this be a question for Adult AB???
by Moongrim on May 29th, 2009
n. Informal., pl. stick-in-the-muds.
One who lacks initiative, imagination, or enthusiasm.
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Your common conservative.
by Wilders on October 22nd, 2009
Hmmm....mud tends to make things slower...so, calling someone a "Slow Poke"
Example: My mind is sooo much faster than yours. Your mind must resemble a "stick in the mud".
lol idk
by Drew Q on October 22nd, 2009
It's like the man holding you back, you know what I'm sayin... man... yeah.
by CaptainHarley adores his life penguin on October 22nd, 2009
Someone unwilling to try new things, who refuses to budge from where they are.
by Jacques on October 22nd, 2009
Someone who is a combination of boring and stubborn.
by uncacal on June 3rd, 2009
We spent 4 hours in a sailboat that was heeled over past 45 degrees, waiting for the tide to come in.
by Millenium - The Mysterious M. . . GONE! on May 30th, 2009
Someone who is "stuck in their way"! They have their way about life and NO ONE is going to change them!
by PrairieWind on May 29th, 2009
What you can call me besides "Charlie"
by Sixty B - Commander Topcoat on May 29th, 2009
Someone who is overall rigid, not open to new ideas, awkward, and generally acting like he/she has a stick someplace else... :-P
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ummm..thank you! +6
by Cotton 201 on May 30th, 2009