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What is a dowd?

What is a dowd? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (archaic) A dowdy person, especially a woman; a frump.
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To make matters worse, the school belonged to a ghastly, gruesome headmaster named Mr Dowd.
Referee Phil Dowd never contemplated the penalty Fulham probably deserved.
My friend had met Mr Dowd before when he had turned up at her doorstep canvassing for votes.
Harvey is the story of mild-mannered Elwood P. Dowd and his best friend, an invisible six-and-a-half foot rabbit named Harvey.
Dowd proceeded to seek a solution to this temporal chaos, and struck upon the idea of dividing North America into four time zones measuring 15 degrees of longitude, each corresponding to a time differential of one hour.
It must have rankled her to see other people rise to the top, even Dowd and Gail Collins, the editorial page editor.

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