flowerdy
Covered in flower print, like a dress or curtain.
Also called floweredy, flowery.
Updated September 21, 2026
flowerdy pronunciation
/FLOU-er-dee/
Meaning
Means a fabric or outfit has a floral pattern all over it. Think feed-sack dresses, house dresses, quilts, and curtains with roses or little blooms. Same idea as flowery, just the Appalachian and rural Southern shape of the word. Some folks spell or say floweredy with an extra syllable.
How folks use it
- “She wore that flowerdy dress to church every Easter.”
- “Mama made curtains out of flowerdy feed sacks.”
Origin and etymology
A dialect spin on flowered or flowery, with the soft -dy ending common in mountain talk (like stripedy or checkedy). Dialect collections and writers from Appalachia and Georgia record flowerdy and floweredy for floral print clothes and cloth. DARE notes it in Southern speech.
Frequently asked questions
Does flowerdy mean covered in real flowers?
Almost always it means printed flowers on cloth, not a bouquet stuck to your shirt.