I am enjoying the Blogging from A-Z challenge a great deal, and have read some wonderful and creative posts.
Today we have the letter ‘D.’ Now I toyed with dainty and doily, both pretty, frilly kinds of words but instead have decided to go with dowdy.
This is a grey, miserable kind of word. An out-of style, frumpy, word that conjures up images of a scruffy, shabby, downtrodden woman (for some reason dowdy is rarely used to describe men)!
It can also be used to describe the decor of a room; the dingy, grimy, miserable, morose kind of room that is depressing ,and gloomy, probably like a lot like the occupant!

Dowdy always makes me think of maiden aunts in a Dylan Thomas Christmas in Wales kind of way.
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Ha ha! Yes with their moustaches!
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Good word.
🙂
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Thank you 🙂
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I misread it first, thought it said Dowry!! 😊 😁
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Ha Ha! I don’t know a great deal about that one! 🙂
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Well I was getting ready to read your views.. then realised what the word actually was lol!!
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I am feeling a little dowdy today!
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Oh you and me both Cat. You’ll have to wait until Monday for my next word but I think that one will cheer you up! 🙂
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Why Monday, don’t you do words on Sunday’s?
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We get Sundays off on this challenge for good behaviour!! 🙂
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Good behaviour, Edwina?…You? Really? Oh, ok then 🙂
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Hey, I have been referred to as a ‘young lady’ recently (I was thrilled as I am knocking on a bit) and ladies always behave themselves! 😉
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*Lost for words* 😯
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Good word. Enjoying your blog. Just started following today. Look forward to more. Good luck with the rest of the challenge. Xx
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Hi and welcome. Thank you so much for commenting. I am glad you are enjoying my blog. 🙂
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Been off here since Friday, so will pop over see you later…but first E is for?? Haven’t a breeze!!
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That’s an interesting word. I’m guessing it might be used more in the UK than the states but maybe we can introduce it here by way of your post…:)
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It isn’t a happy, jaunty little word I am afraid, but it does come in handy, for those grey, drab boring-looking items!
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I like your word choices. I think it’s fun to use words that may not be regularly incorporated into our conversations. Thanks for diversifying our vocabularies. 🙂
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I am trying to choose the less obvious words, but there are so many to choose from that I think of others afterwards that might have been better!
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You’ll have to do a sequel to the A to Z Challenge using the alternative words. 🙂
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Yes, I bet I would regret it though when it gets near the end of the alphabet and the tricky letters!
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That’s true! Oh well! 😉
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Can a person be dowdy wearing jeans? Or is a dress kind of word??
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To me it seems more of a dress word, but if they are wearing miserable colours with the jeans, then I suppose they could be dowdy! 🙂
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