Dowdy

a.	1.	Showing a vulgar taste in dress; awkward and slovenly in dress; vulgar-looking.
n.	1.	An awkward, vulgarly dressed, inelegant woman.

Noun	1.	Dowdy - British marshal of the RAF who commanded the British air defense forces that defeated the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain (1882-1970) Synonyms: Baron Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding, Dowding, Hugh Dowding
	2.	dowdy - deep-dish apple dessert covered with a rich crust Synonyms: pandowdy
Adj.	1.	dowdy - lacking in smartness or taste; "a dowdy gray outfit"; "a clean and sunny but completely dowdy room"
	2.	dowdy - primly out of date; "nothing so frumpish as last year's gambling game" Synonyms: frumpish, frumpy

archaic, blowsy, bygone, dated, demode, down-at-heel, down-at-the-heels, drab, draggletailed, dull, frayed, frazzled, frowsy, frowzy, frumpish, frumpy, full of holes, holey, in rags, in shreds, in tatters, old hat, old-fashioned, out-of-date, outdated, outmoded, passe, patchy, ragged, raggedy, ratty, scruffy, seedy, shoddy, slattern, slovenly, slut, sordid, stodgy, tacky, tattered, tatty, torn, traipse, unbecoming, unfashionable, unseemly, vintage