The phrase "as a howdy" is not standard or commonly used in written English.
It could be used informally as a playful or casual greeting, but it may not be widely understood.
Example: "I just wanted to say hi, so here’s a little note as a howdy to brighten your day!"
Alternatives: "as a greeting" or "as a hello".
The backwards boy who couldn't hand over so much as a howdy became a confident front man and a bandleader's bandleader.
But those words, on a sign held aloft by an old coot as a "Howdy!" to an armada of UFOs, is the very spirit of Steven Spielberg's wonderful 1977 film.
referred to his redheaded 30-year-old Republican colleague, U.S. Representative Adam Putnam (R-Fla)., as a "Howdy Doody-looking nimrod" during a debate on the Federal budget.
This opener was tremendously, deliberately confusing: the good guy is a robot, the bad guy (a tremendous Ed Harris, playing the part he was born to play) a veteran vicious tourist on the hunt for darker levels, to assuage all he lacks in real life, which is shaping up as a howdy-doody lot of a lack.
So when Republican Senator Jon Kyl, without so much as a howdy-do, went at Sotomayor, and soon was asking her if she agreed with Barack Obama's contention, when he voted against John Roberts, that a judge's heart is important, the would-be justice was as adroit as her idol Nancy Drew.
A Howdy Doody revival started at the University of Pennsylvania in 1970.
Students are encouraged to greet everyone they pass on campus with a smile and a howdy.
Much harder to learn is a marionette, such as Howdy Doody, which is operated, on strings, from high above the puppet's head.
Eisner, described by the New York Times as resembling Howdy Doody, will undergo a screen test to see how he comes across on camera, Frank said.
And now, after spending the last 40 years switching guardians -- and the last few years locked away in bank vaults and safe deposit boxes during a court custody battle -- the marionette now known as Original Howdy may see the light of day, on display at a Detroit museum.
