stick-in-the-mud

Noun stick-in-the-mud has 1 sense

• stick-in-the-mud(n = noun.person) plodder, slowcoach, slowpoke - someone who moves slowly; "in England they call a slowpoke a slowcoach"
is a kind of dawdler, drone, laggard, lagger, poke, trailer

Adjective stick-in-the-mud has 1 sense

• stick-in-the-mud(s = adj.all) fogyish, moss-grown, mossy, stodgy - (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned; "moss-grown ideas about family life"