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dowd¹

  • /daʊd/

Rhymes with -aʊd

Where it comes from

Back-formation from dowdy.

noun dowds

  1. archaic A dowdy person, especially a woman; a frump. “I knew there were women-dowdies in Bengal. They come up here sometimes. But I didn't know that there were men-dowds, too.”
  2. Any of various European moths of the genus Blastobasis.

Dowd²

Where it comes from

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Dubhda (“descendant of Dubhda”), a byname derived from dubh (“black”).

proper noun Dowds · Dawdy · Dowdy

  1. A surname from Irish.

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dowd. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/dowd

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"dowd." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/dowd.

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@misc{dowd_2026,
  title = {dowd},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/dowd},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}