"fuddy-duddery" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1936, “The Man of the Month: Samuel Eliot Morison”, in The Atlantic, volume 158, page 384:",
          "text": "Now nothing would have been easier than to let all this sag into a compendium of antiquarian fuddy-duddery. Instead, the dry bones stir into flesh-and-blood issues vital to our time.",
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          "text": "Thank you and congratulations for your invigorating articles on decimal coinage and the reform of our national accounts (January 18th issue) - two notable blows in the fight against fuddy-duddery!",
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          "ref": "1973, Fergus Macpherson, One Finger, page 175:",
          "text": "\"Do you believe in this outmoded piece of fuddy-duddery called monogamy, eh? Or would you agree that some men should have more than one wife?\"",
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