dowie

See also: Dowie

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdɔ.vjɛ/
  • Rhymes: -ɔvjɛ
  • Syllabification: do‧wie

Verb

dowie

  1. third-person singular future of dowiedzieć

Scots

Etymology

Uncertain; probably ultimately related to dull.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdʌui/

Adjective

dowie (comparative dowier, superlative dowiest)

  1. melancholy, gloomy
    • 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
      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.
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