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row-de-dow
row-de-dow (raʊdɪˈdaʊ) [Echoic: cf. row n.2 and row-dow-dow.] Noise or din, uproar, disturbance. Also attrib.1790 R. Tyler Contrast iii. i. 42 There was a soldier fellow, who talked about his row de dow, dow, and courted a young woman. 1832 Deb. Congress U.S. 13 Mar. (1833) 2128 The rub-a-dub and ro...
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rowdy-dowdy
ˈrowdy-ˈdowdy, a. slang. [Cf. row-de-dow.] Characterized by noisy roughness.1854 M. Cummins Lamplighter 260 To offer herself as a champion for that rowdy-dowdy child. 1882 in Ogilvie. 1898 J. K. Jerome Sec. Thoughts 293 In Rook-land the rowdy-dowdy, randy-dandy, rollicky-ranky boys get up very early...
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rowdy-dow
▪ I. rowdy-ˈdow, n. [Cf. row-de-dow.] Boisterous noise; uproar. Also attrib. passing into adj. and quasi-adv. So rowdy-dowy a.1852 J. Labern Popular Comic Song Bk. 75 While Spifflicating Charlie Coker and Jane of the Hatchet-face divine, Just did the Rowdydowy Poker. 1935 W. Stevens in Poetry XLV. 2...
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