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dowdy: deep-dish apple dessert covered with a rich crust; primly out of date; "nothing so frumpish as last year's gambling game"; lacking in smartness or taste; "a dowdy grey outfit"; "a clean and sunny but completely dowdy room"

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frowsy collapse: negligent of neatness especially in dress and person; habitually dirty and unkempt; "filled the door with her frowzy bulk"; "frowzy white hair"; "slovenly appearance"

frayed collapse: worn away or tattered along the edges; "frayed cuffs"

tatty collapse

holey collapse: allowing passage in and out; "our unfenced and largely unpoliced border inevitably has been very porous"

quiche collapse: the Mayan language spoken by the Quiche; a tart filled with rich unsweetened custard; often contains other ingredients (as cheese or ham or seafood or vegetables); a member of the Mayan people of south central Guatemala

patisserie collapse: a bakery specializing in French pastry

timbale collapse: small pastry shell for creamy mixtures of minced foods; individual serving of minced e.g. meat or fish in a rich creamy sauce baked in a small pastry mold or timbale shell

eclair collapse: oblong cream puff

strudel collapse: thin sheet of filled dough rolled and baked

rosette collapse: an ornament or pattern resembling a rose that is worn as a badge of office or as recognition of having won an honor; a cluster of leaves growing in crowded circles from a common center or crown (usually at or close to the ground)

pandowdy collapse

pastry collapse: any of various baked foods made of dough or batter; a dough of flour and water and shortening

slattern collapse: a dirty untidy woman

frumpish collapse

slatternly collapse

blintz collapse: (Judaism) thin pancake folded around a filling and fried or baked

raggedy collapse

ratty collapse: dirty and infested with rats; of or characteristic of rats

pate collapse: the top of the head; liver or meat or fowl finely minced or ground and variously seasoned

turnover collapse: a dish made by folding a piece of pastry over a filling

tattered collapse: worn to shreds; or wearing torn or ragged clothing; "a man in a tattered shirt"; "the tattered flag"; "tied up in tattered brown paper"; "a tattered barefoot boy"; "a tatterdemalion prince"

Danish pastry collapse

down at the heel collapse

frazzled collapse

old-fashioned collapse

pie collapse: dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top

slovenly collapse

torn collapse: disrupted by the pull of contrary forces; "torn between love and hate"; "torn by conflicting loyalties"; "torn by religious dissensions"

drab collapse: lacking brightness or color; dull; "drab faded curtains"; "sober Puritan grey"; "children in somber brown clothes"; lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise; "her drab personality"; "life was drab compared with the more exciting life style overseas"; "a series of dreary dinner parties"

scruffy collapse: shabby and untidy; "a surge of ragged scruffy children"; "he was soiled and seedy and fragrant with gin"- Mark Twain

slut collapse

stodgy collapse: excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull; "why is the middle class so stodgy, so utterly without a sense of humor?"; "a stodgy dinner party"; heavy and starchy and hard to digest; "stodgy food"; "a stodgy pudding served up when everyone was already full"

pasty collapse: (usually used in the plural) one of a pair of adhesive patches worn to cover the nipples of exotic dancers and striptease performers; small meat pie or turnover; resembling paste in color; pallid; "he looked pasty and red-eyed"; "a complexion that had been pastelike was now chalky white"

seedy collapse: full of seeds; "as seedy as a fig"

tart collapse: a pastry cup with a filling of fruit or custard and no top crust; a small open pie with a fruit filling

traipse collapse: walk or tramp about

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