英和和英

発音

• IPA: /ˈhaʊdi/
• 韻: -aʊdi

語源 1

Clipping of howdy-do, from how-d'ye-do (“how do you do”).

間投詞

howdy

1. (US, regional, informal) An informal greeting.

   Howdy folks, and welcome to our ninth annual chili cookoff!

派生語

派生した語

• Sranan Tongo: odi

動詞

howdy (third-person singular simple present howdies, present participle howdying, simple past and past participle howdied)

1. (transitive) To greet informally, especially by saying "howdy"
   • 2016, Brynn Bonner, Dead in a Flash, page 249:

     I stood up for the kid and it got ugly, with accusations being thrown in both directions. So the sheriff and I weren't exactly on howdying terms when that fire happened.

語源 2

Unknown.

名詞

howdy (plural howdies)

1. (Scotland) A wife.
2. (Scotland) A midwife.