HOWDY meaning: Friendly greeting, especially in South - OneLook

Usually means: Friendly greeting, especially in South.

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howdy: Merriam-Webster
howdy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
howdy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
howdy: Collins English Dictionary
howdy: Vocabulary.com
Howdy, howdy: Wordnik
howdy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
howdy: Wiktionary
howdy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
howdy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
howdy: Infoplease Dictionary
Howdy, howdy: Dictionary.com
howdy: Online Etymology Dictionary
howdy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Howdy (disambiguation), Howdy, Howdy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Howdy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
howdy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
howdy: Rhymezone
Howdy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
howdy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
howdy: FreeDictionary.org
howdy: TheFreeDictionary.com
howdy: Mnemonic Dictionary
howdy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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howdy: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

Howdy (offensive): Racial Slur Database

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Definitions from Wiktionary (howdy)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To greet informally, especially by saying "howdy"
▸ noun:  (Scotland) A wife.
▸ noun:  (Scotland) A midwife.

Similar:

hullo, hi, hello, how-do-you-do, hallo, halloo, halloa, haloo, hail, halse, more...

Opposite:

hi, hello, hiya

Types:

hi, hello, hey, what's up, good morning, good afternoon, good evening, more...

Phrases:

Howdy Doody, Boy Howdy, Captain Howdy, more...

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Similar:

hullo, hi, hello, how-do-you-do, hallo, halloo, halloa, haloo, hail, halse, more...

Opposite:

hi, hello, hiya

Types:

hi, hello, hey, what's up, good morning, good afternoon, good evening, more...

Phrases:

Howdy Doody, Boy Howdy, Captain Howdy, more...

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