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DOWD
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English
English : patronymic from an Old English personal name, Dogod (probably a derivative of dugan ‘to avail’, ‘to be of use’). In England the surname is chiefly found in Gloucestershire and Somerset.
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English
English : variant of Dowden.
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English
English : habitational name from a lost place in Sussex named Dudehay ‘Dudda’s enclosure (Old English hæg).Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Dubhda (see Dowd).
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English and Scottish
English and Scottish : from the Middle English personal name Dodde, Dudde, Old English Dodda, Dudda, which remained in fairly widespread and frequent use in England until the 14th century. It seems to have been originally a byname, but the meaning is not clear; it may come from a Germanic root used to describe something round and lumpish—hence a short, plump man.Irish : of English origin, taken to Sligo in the 16th century by a Shropshire family; also sometimes adopted by bearers of the Gaelic name Ó Dubhda (see Dowd).Daniel and Mary Dod, natives of England, emigrated to Branford, CT, in about 1645.
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Irish
Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Dubhda ‘descendant of Dubhda’, a byname derived from dubh ‘dark’, ‘black’. The family were chieftains in Sligo and Mayo.English : from the personal name Dowd, a variant of David.
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English
English : unexplained.Variant spelling of Scottish Dowdie, which is probably a variant of Irish Duddy.
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English
English : variant spelling of Dowdell.Possibly an altered spelling of German Daudel, Dautel, variants of Dietz.
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Irish (of English origin)
Irish (of English origin) : habitational name from Dovedale in Derbyshire, ‘valley (Middle English dale) of the river Dove’ (see Dove 1).Irish : English surname adopted by bearers of Gaelic Ó Dubhdáleithe (see Dudley 2).English : habitational name from a lost place Ovedale or Uvedale, which gave rise to the 14th-century surname de Uvedale alias de Ovedale, connected with the manor of D’Oversdale in Litlington, Cambridgeshire; this is first recorded as ‘manor of Overdale otherwise Dowdale’ in 1408.
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English
English : probably a habitational name from Dowdeswell in Gloucestershire, named from an Old English personal name Dogod + Old English wella ‘spring’, ‘stream’.
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a.
Like a dowdy.
pl.
of Dowdy
superl.
Showing a vulgar taste in dress; awkward and slovenly in dress; vulgar-looking.
n.
An awkward, vulgarly dressed, inelegant woman.