dowie
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 9
- Words With Friends
- 9
- Letters
- 5
Definition of dowie
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
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(Scotland)Dull, dreary; melancholy.
“There was no comfort in the goodliness of spring or the bright sunshine weather, and she who had been wont to go about the doors lightfoot and blithe was now as dowie as a widow woman.”
“‘You are less use than an empty tin can, you dowey old cassowary.’”
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adj
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(Scotland)Dull, dreary; melancholy.
“There was no comfort in the goodliness of spring or the bright sunshine weather, and she who had been wont to go about the doors lightfoot and blithe was now as dowie as a widow woman.”
“‘You are less use than an empty tin can, you dowey old cassowary.’”
name
- A surname
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Scots dowie, apparently a form of dull + -ly.
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