howdy
intj/ˈhaʊdi/
Etymology
Clipping of howdy-do, from how-d'ye-do (“how do you do”).
Definitions
An informal greeting.
- Howdy folks, and welcome to our ninth annual chili cookoff!
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.
A wife.
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A midwife.
The neighborhood
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