dowdy

4 definitions found

dowdy - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Dowdy \Dow"dy\, n.; pl. Dowdies.
     An awkward, vulgarly dressed, inelegant woman. --Shak.
     Dryden.
     [1913 Webster]

  Dowdy \Dow"dy\, a. [Compar. Dowdier; superl. Dowdiest.]
     [Scot. dawdie slovenly, daw, da sluggard, drab, Prov. E. dowd
     flat, dead.]
     Showing a vulgar taste in dress; awkward and slovenly in
     dress; vulgar-looking. -- Dow"di*ly, adv. -- Dow"di*ness,
     n.
     [1913 Webster]

dowdy - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  dowdy
      adj 1: lacking in smartness or taste; "a dowdy grey outfit"; "a
             clean and sunny but completely dowdy room"
      2: primly out of date; "nothing so frumpish as last year's
         gambling game" [syn: dowdy, frumpy, frumpish]
      n 1: British marshal of the RAF who commanded the British air
           defense forces that defeated the Luftwaffe during the
           Battle of Britain (1882-1970) [syn: Dowding, Hugh Dowding
           , Baron Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding,
           Dowdy]
      2: deep-dish apple dessert covered with a rich crust [syn:
         dowdy, pandowdy]

dowdy - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  52 Moby Thesaurus words for "dowdy":
     archaic, blowsy, bygone, dated, demode, down-at-heel,
     down-at-the-heels, drab, draggletailed, dull, frayed, frazzled,
     frowsy, frowzy, frumpish, frumpy, full of holes, holey, in rags,
     in shreds, in tatters, messy, old hat, old-fashioned, out-of-date,
     outdated, outmoded, passe, patchy, ragged, raggedy, ratty, scruffy,
     seedy, shabby, shoddy, slattern, sloppy, slovenly, slut, sordid,
     stodgy, tacky, tattered, tatty, torn, traipse, unbecoming,
     unfashionable, unkempt, unseemly, vintage