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blondie, n. and a.
Brit. |ˈblɒndi|, U.S. |ˈblɑndi|
Forms: 18– blondie, 19– blondy
[‹ blonde n. + -y suffix6. In sense A. 2, punningly after brownie n.2 2.]
A. n.
1. (A name for) a person, esp. a woman, with blonde hair.
1882Fort Wayne (Indiana) Daily Gaz. 6 Nov. 1/6 Out of respect for the future husbands of the girls [who engaged in a fist fight] we withhold the names of the belligerents, simply designating them as Blondie and Pinkie. 1910Washington Post 2 Sept. 6/7 Her eyes may be sapphires a-twin, But Puritan spirit is grim. No Titian blondie Can labor for John D.—No red-headed siren for him! 1930R. E. Sherwood This is N.Y. ii. 106 Judge... Have I met you before, blondie? (He is making a pass.) 1976R. Berry Before forever After in A. Richards Penguin Bk. Welsh Short Stories 275 ‘How does she look in the buff?’.. ‘White, exceptionally white, I thought. Goes with her being a blondie, I suppose.’ 2005Sun (Nexis) 6 Sept. We never did manage to bag any major roles in the school nativity play and it was always the blue-eyed blondies who played the angels.
2. N. Amer. A small square of dense cake similar to a brownie but having a cream or golden colour, and typically not chocolate-flavoured.
1943Salamanca (N.Y.) Republican-Press 27 May 5/2 (heading) Blondies (Light Colored Brownies). 4 tablespoons shortening. 3/4 cup dark brown sugar. 2 eggs, beaten [etc.]. 1948Valley Morning Star (Harlingen, Texas) 12 Mar. 16 (advt.) Butter scotch blondies—doz... 30c. 1982N.Y. Times 11 July g19/2 The Vegetarian picnic consists of pasta primavera.., Swiss peasant bread, a well-above-average brownie and white-chocolate blondie. 1994Gaz. (Montreal) (Nexis) 14 Dec. d1 A blondie is a non-chocolate brownie. 2003J. L. Hayes Grandma's Wartime Baking Bk. iv. 73 The brown sugar lends a mellow butterscotch flavor to these Blondies.
B. adj. Chiefly Irish English. Blonde.
1905Lincoln (Nebraska) Evening News 13 Sept. 3/1 Blond hair often grows darker as the blondy girl grows older. 1965B. Friel Philadelphia, Here I Come! in Sel. Plays (1984) 70 By the way, lads, who's is the blondie thing I seen at the last Mass on Sunday? 1994E. McNamee Resurrection Man (1998) i. 5 Their blondie hair they got from a bottle. 2003Irish Times (Nexis) 16 Aug. 43 Meanwhile, one of their midfielders was sold to a Spanish club, the blondy lad with the right foot. |