dowdyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音, 米国発音) enPR: dou'dē, IPA: /ˈdaʊdi/

• 韻: -aʊdi

形容詞

dowdy (comparative dowdier, superlative dowdiest)

1. Plain and unfashionable in style or dress.
2. Lacking stylishness or neatness; shabby.
   • 1891, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.; Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC:

     [...she was] a perfect saint amongst women, but so dreadfully dowdy that she reminded one of a badly bound hymn-book.

   • 2020 December 25, Chris Van Dusen, “Diamond of the First Water”, in Bridgerton, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Lady Portia Featherington:

     Miss Marina Thompson, a distant cousin of my husband's. She's rather dowdy, is she not?

   • 2025 May 11, Monica Padrick, “Don Tyxote” (15:59 from the start), in Krapopolis‎, season 2, episode 21, spoken by Deliria (Hannah Waddingham):

     “Ha! Shagging a chair is quite odd.” “Its legs were very sexy. And I know how you are, so I expected a challenge. What did you turn into anyway?” “Oh, the dowdiest mortal woman. You should have seen it.” “Oh, I would have been all over that.” “I know!”

派生語

名詞

dowdy (plural dowdies)

1. A plain or shabby person.
   • 1877, Truth, volume 1, page 615:

     Besides these, however, and the determined dowdies, women who either do not understand dress, or who will not be troubled with it, there are certainly many who, while always anxious to appear to the best advantage, are not wealthy enough to do so […]

   • 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Education of Otis Yeere”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 29:

     “I knew there were women-dowdies in Bengal. They come up here sometimes. But I didn't know that there were men-dowds, too.”

   • 1895, Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband:

     The men are all dowdies and the women are all dandies, aren't they?

動詞

dowdy (third-person singular simple present dowdies, present participle dowdying, simple past and past participle dowdied)

1. (cooking, transitive) To press the crust into the filling during baking, to allow the juices to caramelize on top.
   • 2021, America's Test Kitchen, The Complete Cook’s Country TV Show Cookbook, page 743:

     Topping the apples with squares of dough allowed steam to escape during baking, preventing the apples from overcooking. Dowdying the crust partway through created the dessert's sweet finish.

派生語

• dowdy up
• figgy-dowdy
• pandowdy