dowdy

noun

1. deep-dish apple dessert covered with a rich crust

Synonym: pandowdy

adj

1. primly out of date

e.g. nothing so frumpish as last year's gambling game

Synonym: frumpyfrumpish

2. lacking in smartness or taste

e.g. a dowdy grey outfit
a clean and sunny but completely dowdy room

1. (人或衣着)单调的，土气的，不时髦的
If you describe someone or their clothes as dowdy, you mean their clothes are dull and unfashionable.

e.g. ...playing hostess to a lot of officials and their dowdy wives...
接待众多官员及他们衣着落伍的夫人
e.g. Her clothes were clean but dowdy.
她衣着整洁但有点土气。

1. 衣衫褴褛的：dowdily 懒散地 | dowdy 衣衫褴褛的 | dowel 木钉

2. dowdy

2. 邋遢女人,懒散女人：understudy候补演员,替身 | dowdy邋遢女人,懒散女人 | rowdy吵闹的人

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3. 不整洁的,过旧的：bawdy 淫猥的、下流的 | dowdy 不整洁的,过旧的 | rowdy 吵闹的,粗暴的

4. 衣衫褴褛的; 懒散的; 寒酸的 (形)：dowager 贵妇; 老年贵妇人 (名) | dowdy 衣衫褴褛的; 懒散的; 寒酸的 (形) | dowel 用暗销接合 (动)