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Meaning of dowdy

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  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      2: primly out of date; "nothing so frumpish as last year's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" [syn: {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) [syn: {Dowding}, {Hugh
           Dowding}, {Baron Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding},
           {Dowdy}]
      2: deep-dish apple dessert covered with a rich crust [syn:
         {dowdy}, {pandowdy}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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