DOWDY

a. n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Showing a vulgar taste in dress; awkward and slovenly in dress; vulgar-looking. -- Dow"di*ly, adv. -- Dow"di*ness, n.

2.
n.

An awkward, vulgarly dressed, inelegant woman. Shak. Dryden.


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