| 释义 |
blowzed, a.|blaʊzd|
Also blowsed.
[It has the form of a pa. pple. of a vb. to blowze, in the sense of ‘to make blowzy’: cf. prec.]
1. Rendered blowzy in the face; excited; disordered in dress or hair; dishevelled, frowzy.
1766Goldsm. Vic. W. x, I don't like to see my daughters trudging up to their pew all blowzed and red with walking. Ibid. xi, My eldest daughter was hemmed in and thumped about, all blowzed in spirits, and bawling for fairplay. 1847Tennyson Princ. iv. 260 Huge women blowzed with health and wind and rain And labour. 1884Longm. Mag. June 175 The cook came out with tolerably ‘blowsed’ hair.
†2. blowzed off (see quot.). Obs.
1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) VIII. xli. 156 The paint lying in streaky seams not half blowzed off, discovering coarse wrinkled skins. |