Found 3 items, similar to dowdy.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: dowdy jembel, kebodohan
English → English (WordNet) Definition: dowdy dowdy adj 1: lacking in smartness or taste; “a dowdy gray outfit”; “a clean and sunny but completely dowdy room” 2: primly out of date; “nothing so frumpish as last year's gambling game” [syn: frumpy, frumpish] n 1: British marshal of the RAF who commanded the British air defense forces that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) [syn: Dowding, Hugh Dowding , Baron Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding] 2: deep-dish apple dessert covered with a rich crust [syn: pandowdy] [also: dowdiest, dowdier]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Dowdy 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]