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davered, ppl. a. dial.|ˈdeɪvəd|
[f. daver v.]
Withered, faded, drooping.
1837M. Palmer Dialogue Devonshire Dial. 6 Now, dear soul, her's like a daver'd rose. 1864E. Capern Devon Provinc., Thy heart is like the daver'd rose.
So ˈdaverdy a. dial., dowdy, unkempt.
1906Galsworthy Man of Property i. vii. 95 Even in the garden, that sense of things being pokey haunted old Jolyon; the wicker chair creaked under his weight; the garden-beds looked ‘daverdy’. Ibid. ii. iii. 148 That was how he liked 'em, all of a piece, none of your daverdy, scarecrow women! 1924― On Expression 7 What an expressive variant of the word ‘dowdy’..is the word ‘daverdy’..! Dowdy suggests the flannel petticoat, the thick, the dusty appearance; daverdy a sea-green, trailing, down-at-heeledness. |