dowdy
英 ['daʊdɪ]
美['daʊdi]
- adj. 懒散的；过时的；寒酸的
- n. 懒散的女人；邋遢女人
- n. (Dowdy)人名；(英)道迪
词态变化
比较级: dowdier;最高级: dowdiest;
中文词源
dowdy 过时的
词源不详。
英英释意
- 1. deep-dish apple dessert covered with a rich crust
英文词源
- dowdy
- 1580s (n.), "an aukward, ill-dressed, inelegant woman" [Johnson]; 1670s (adj.), perhaps a diminutive of doue "poorly dressed woman" (early 14c.), which is of uncertain origin. The modern use of dowd (n.) is most likely a back-formation from dowdy. "If plaine or homely, wee saie she is a doudie or a slut" [Barnabe Riche, "Riche his Farewell to Militarie profession," 1581].
You don't have to be dowdy to be a Christian. [Tammy Faye Bakker, "Newsweek," June 8, 1987]
Related: Dowdily; dowdiness.
实用场景例句
- a dowdy dress
- 单调的连衣裙
牛津词典
- ...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
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- Her clothes were clean but dowdy.
- 她衣着整洁但有点土气。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- She made the other women look dowdy and careless.
- 她使其他人相形见绌,使她们显得太懒散.
辞典例句
- The dowdy fellow is quite unlike the general run of my wife's guests.
- 这个邋里邋遢的家伙完全不象我妻子的客人那一流人.
辞典例句
- With long grey hair, wrinkles and dowdy clothes, the beautiful actress is barely recognisable.
- 这一头白发, 一脸皱纹,一身邋遢的衣服, 美艳性感的大明星完全判若两人.
期刊摘选
- I get so sick of women in dowdy old clothes and perpetual crepe.
- 我对那些穿得又丑又旧和永远带着黑纱的女人腻烦透了.
飘（部分）
- The existing building's interior spaces by contrast are rather dark, cluttered and dowdy.
- 现有建物的内部空间相对之下显得相当地黑暗 、 零乱和过时.
期刊摘选
- She looked very plain and dowdy.
- 她长得非常普通,衣也过时.
《简明英汉词典》
- The prowess and endowment are the prowler's wager to the dowdy dowager.
- 英勇和禀赋是潜行者下给衣衫褴褛的富孀的赌注.
期刊摘选
- She was in a dowdy blue frock.
- 她穿了件不大洁净的蓝上衣.
辞典例句
- You really do not like a village girl although you said you dress dowdy.
- 你看不像村姑,虽然你说你的衣着老土.
期刊摘选
- Her clothes were clean but dowdy.
- 她衣着整洁但有点土气。
辞典例句
- She makes me feel dowdy and ugly.
- 她让我自惭形秽。
辞典例句