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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 dowdy /ˈdaʊdi/
 (a.)寒酸的,懶散的懶散的女人,邋裡邋遢的女人

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Dow·dy a. [Compar. Dowdier superl. Dowdiest.]  Showing a vulgar taste in dress; awkward and slovenly in dress; vulgar-looking. -- Dow*di*ly adv. -- Dow*di*ness, n.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Dow·dy, n.; pl. Dowdies  An awkward, vulgarly dressed, inelegant woman.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 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      2: primly out of date; "nothing so frumpish as last year's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]