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Downey
DOW-nee
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A surname, and a city in Los Angeles County, California.
"Robert Downey Jr. is one of Hollywood's best-known actors."
Word Forms
Downeys plural
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Etymology
A reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Dúnadhaigh, or a Scottish habitational surname from the barony of Downie.