the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. A midwife.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
A contraction of how do you (do)?—a colloquial greeting, now almost peculiar to the southern and western United States, the fuller form howdy do? being used elsewhere: also used as a noun for a greeting with this phrase.
n. See howdie.
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n. an expression of greeting
Word Usage
"I have just finished watching S1 of Bones and boy howdy is that a Mary Sue."