A formal and conservative person with old-fashioned views.

synonym: square.

Roget 857: laughingstock, jestingstock^†, gazingstock^†; butt, game, fair game; April fool etc. (dupe) 547^†.    original, oddity; queer fish, odd fish; quiz, square toes; old monkey, old fogey, fogey monkey, fogy monkey; buffoon etc. (jester) 844; pantomimist etc. (actor) 599.    schlemiel.    jest etc. (wit) 842.    ... show more