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dowd

noun
/daʊd/

Etymology

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Dubhda (“descendant of Dubhda”), a byname derived from dubh (“black”).

  1. derived from Ó Dubhda

Definitions

  1. A dowdy person, especially a woman

    A dowdy person, especially a woman; a frump.

    • “I knew there were women-dowdies in Bengal. They come up here sometimes. But I didn't know that there were men-dowds, too.”
    • "You wouldn't have me a dowd, Olaf?" said she, demurely. "I have to be neat and tidy, you know. You wouldn't have me going about in a continuous state of unbuttonedness and black bombazine like Mrs. Rabbet, would you?"

  2. Any of various European moths of the genus Blastobasis.

  3. A surname from Irish.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA