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n. Informal., pl. stick-in-the-muds. One who lacks initiative, imagination, or enthusiasm. http://www.answers.com/topic/stick-in-the-mud Your common conservative.
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someone you rather not hang around with because they are dull
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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, shouldn't this be a question for Adult AB???
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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.
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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...! :)
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What you can call me besides "Charlie"
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Trying to eat ice cream with chopsticks. +5
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someone that doesnt want to have fun. lol
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"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.
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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
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Dull,party pooper.*
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Someone who is "stuck in their way"! They have their way about life and NO ONE is going to change them!
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We spent 4 hours in a sailboat that was heeled over past 45 degrees, waiting for the tide to come in.
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Someone who is a combination of boring and stubborn.
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Someone unwilling to try new things, who refuses to budge from where they are.
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It's like the man holding you back, you know what I'm sayin... man... yeah.
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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
Moongrim 
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