apple pandowdy

noun

Chiefly New England. a deep-dish apple pie or cobbler, usually sweetened with molasses.

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Also called pandowdy, apple dowdy.

Origin of apple pandowdy

An Americanism dating back to 1820–30

Words nearby apple pandowdy

apple jelly nodules, apple maggot, apple of discord, apple of one's eye, apple of peru, apple pandowdy, apple polisher, apple sauce, apple sucker, apple tree borer, apple valley
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