Stepford

== English == === Etymology 1 === From step + ford. ==== Proper noun ==== Stepford (countable and uncountable, plural Stepfords) A surname. A placename: A locality in Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NX8681). === Etymology 2 === From the fictional place name Stepford. After the fictional suburb in the 1972 novel The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin, and in two films of the same name based on the novel. ==== Adjective ==== Stepford (not comparable) Docile, unthinking and conformist. 2011 July 18, Matt Culkin, “The 16 Most Hilariously Dishonest Old School Advertisements”, Cracked.com: Were the Nazis trying to infiltrate the U.S. Navy with an army of gonorrhea-infected Stepford clones? Attractive but lacking any character. ===== Related terms ===== === References === OED 2004