Bible Dictionaries
Dowdy

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(superl.) Showing a vulgar taste in dress; awkward and slovenly in dress; vulgar-looking.

(2):

(n.) An awkward, vulgarly dressed, inelegant woman.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Dowdy'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​d/dowdy.html. 1828.