"howdie" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "howdies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "howdy"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "51 49",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
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            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2011, Wulf Kurtoglu, Caroline Macafee, Braken Fences, page 195",
          "text": "Sae Beatrice wis ready whan she wis cried on in the middle o the nicht tae halp the howdie. It wis a saicont bairn, an Derriakin wis muckle-boukit, sae the birth gaed quick.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Catherine M. Byrne, Follow the Dove, page 110",
          "text": "'I've sent Davie for Lizzie, the howdie,' she said. 'Ye're not to worry. A seven month bairn can survive.'",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Margaret Bennett, Scottish Customs: From the Cradle to the Grave",
          "text": "The children born in Hawick in the olden times were, with few exceptions, ushered into the world with the aid of the howdie or midwife; for the practice of midwifery was, unless in very special cases, almost confined to women.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of howdy"
      ],
      "id": "en-howdie-en-noun-FttKKo1i",
      "links": [
        [
          "howdy",
          "howdy#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "howdie"
}

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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "howdie",
      "name": "en-interj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "intj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "howdy"
        }
      ],
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        {
          "_dis": "51 49",
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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          ],
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1984, Preston Jones, A Place on the Magdalena Flats: A Play in Three Acts, page 60",
          "text": "Howdie there, Wanda. How about a cuppa .",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015 November 24, Kristine Francis, “NCIS Recap 11/24/15: Season 13 Episode 10 \"Blood Brothers\"”, in Celebrity Dirty Laundry",
          "text": "He says howdie and says he got a deal for Doogan.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016 May 21, Sunita Mudaliar, “Trying to control tourists in Umred-Karhandla is not such a good idea!”, in Nagpur Today",
          "text": "Then he went round the gypsy saying “Howdie?” to the youngsters inside, who obviously seemed fear stricken.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of howdy"
      ],
      "id": "en-howdie-en-intj-FttKKo1i",
      "links": [
        [
          "howdy",
          "howdy#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "howdie"
}

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  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English interjections",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "howdies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "howdie (plural howdies)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "word": "howdy"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2011, Wulf Kurtoglu, Caroline Macafee, Braken Fences, page 195",
          "text": "Sae Beatrice wis ready whan she wis cried on in the middle o the nicht tae halp the howdie. It wis a saicont bairn, an Derriakin wis muckle-boukit, sae the birth gaed quick.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Catherine M. Byrne, Follow the Dove, page 110",
          "text": "'I've sent Davie for Lizzie, the howdie,' she said. 'Ye're not to worry. A seven month bairn can survive.'",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Margaret Bennett, Scottish Customs: From the Cradle to the Grave",
          "text": "The children born in Hawick in the olden times were, with few exceptions, ushered into the world with the aid of the howdie or midwife; for the practice of midwifery was, unless in very special cases, almost confined to women.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of howdy"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "howdy",
          "howdy#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "howdie"
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  "categories": [
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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English interjections",
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          "word": "howdy"
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      ],
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1984, Preston Jones, A Place on the Magdalena Flats: A Play in Three Acts, page 60",
          "text": "Howdie there, Wanda. How about a cuppa .",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015 November 24, Kristine Francis, “NCIS Recap 11/24/15: Season 13 Episode 10 \"Blood Brothers\"”, in Celebrity Dirty Laundry",
          "text": "He says howdie and says he got a deal for Doogan.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016 May 21, Sunita Mudaliar, “Trying to control tourists in Umred-Karhandla is not such a good idea!”, in Nagpur Today",
          "text": "Then he went round the gypsy saying “Howdie?” to the youngsters inside, who obviously seemed fear stricken.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of howdy"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "howdy",
          "howdy#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "howdie"
}