davered, ppl. a. dial.
(ˈdeɪvəd)
[f. daver v.]
Withered, faded, drooping.
| 1837 M. Palmer Dialogue Devonshire Dial. 6 Now, dear soul, her's like a daver'd rose. 1864 E. Capern Devon Provinc., Thy heart is like the daver'd rose. |
So ˈdaverdy a. dial., dowdy, unkempt.
| 1906 Galsworthy 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. |