dowie

comparative more dowie · superlative most dowie · alternative dowey

1. ScotlandDull, dreary; melancholy.

   ‘You are less use than an empty tin can, you dowey old cassowary.’

   1915, Rudyard Kipling, “Mary Postgate”, in A Diversity of Creatures, London: Macmillan and Co., […], published 1917, →OCLC, page 423

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   There was no comfort in the goodliness of spring or the bright sunshine weather, and she who had been wont to go about the doors lightfoot and blithe was now as dowie as a widow woman.

   1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide

1. A surname