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First published 1952 (SND Vol. III).
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DOWDIE, -Y, adj. Withered (Bwk. 1942 Wettstein).Bwk. c.1887 R. M. Calder in Minstr. of the Merse (ed. Crockett 1893) 257:
The frost has nipt the heather bloom, The brackens hing their dowdie leaves.
