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dowdy

English

  1. 🔊 primly out of date
    “nothing so frumpish as last year's gambling game”
  2. 🔊 lacking in smartness or taste
    “a dowdy grey outfit”
  3. 🔊 deep-dish apple dessert covered with a rich crust
  4. 🔊 British marshal of the RAF who commanded the British air defense forces that defeated the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain (1882-1970)

Similar words

pandowdy dowding hugh dowding baron hugh caswall tremenheere dowding frumpy frumpish 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