transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈdaudɪ ]
adj. & n. --adj. (dowdier, dowdiest) 1 (of clothes) unattractively dull; unfashionable. 2 (of a person, esp. a woman) dressed in dowdy clothes. --n. (pl. -ies) a dowdy woman. øødowdily adv. dowdiness n. [ME dowd slut, of unkn. orig.]