howdy

intj
/ˈhaʊdi/

Etymology

Clipping of howdy-do, from how-d'ye-do (“how do you do”).

Definitions

  1. An informal greeting.

    • Howdy folks, and welcome to our ninth annual chili cookoff!
  2. To greet informally, especially by saying "howdy"

    • I stood up for the kid and it got ugly, with accusations being thrown in both directions. So the sheriff and I weren't exactly on howdying terms when that fire happened.
  3. A wife.

  4. + 1 more definition
    1. A midwife.

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for howdy. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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