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dowdy 音標拼音: [d'ɑʊdi] a. 寒酸的,懶散的
n. 懶散的女人,邋里邋遢的女人 寒酸的,懶散的懶散的女人,邋裏邋遢的女人 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adj 1: lacking in smartness or taste; " a dowdy grey outfit"; " a clean and sunny but completely dowdy room" 2: primly out of date; " nothing so frumpish as last year' s gambling game" [ synonym: { dowdy}, { frumpy}, { frumpish}] n 1: British marshal of the RAF who commanded the British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) [ synonym: { Dowding}, { Hugh Dowding}, { Baron Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding}, { Dowdy}] 2: deep- dish apple dessert covered with a rich crust [ synonym: { dowdy}, { pandowdy}] 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 \ Dow" dy\, n.; pl. { Dowdies}. An awkward, vulgarly dressed, inelegant woman. -- Shak. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] 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frumpish, frumpy, full of holes, holey, in rags, in shreds, in tatters, messy, old hat, old- fashioned, out- of- date, outdated, outmoded, passe, patchy, ragged, raggedy, ratty, scruffy, seedy, shabby, shoddy, slattern, sloppy, slovenly, slut, sordid, stodgy, tacky, tattered, tatty,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
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