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dowdyish

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
dowdy-ish
IPA
19
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Like a dowdy; frumpy.

Archaic

Etymology

From dowdy + -ish.

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

more dowdyish (comparative) most dowdyish (superlative)

Questions

What does dowdyish mean?
Like a dowdy; frumpy.
Where does dowdyish come from?
From dowdy + -ish.

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