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blowzy, a.|ˈblaʊzɪ|
Also blousy, blowsy.
[f. blowze + -y1.]
1. Like a blowze; having a bloated face; red and coarse-complexioned; flushed-looking.
1778F. Burney Diary & Lett. I. 149 Thinking herself too ruddy and blowzy, it was her custom to bleed herself three or four times against the Rugby races. 1787Wolcott (P. Pindar) To Laureate Wks. 1812 I. 476 Large-red-poll'd, blowzy hard two-handed jades. 1880Blackw. Mag. Feb. 221 Like a common-place blowzy dairymaid.
fig.1922Blackw. Mag. Mar. 353 That frousy, blousy, lousy tug.
2. Of hair, dress: Dishevelled, frowzy, slatternly.
c1770T. Erskine The Barber in Poet. Regr. (1810) 328 Long his beard, and blouzy hair. 1854Thackeray Newcomes I. 137 Smiled at him from under her blowsy curl-papers. 1931S. Benson Tobit Transplanted iii. 33 His mother's large blousy bun of hair was always coming down.
3. Coarse, rustic.
1851Helps Comp. Solit. v. (1874) 64, I cannot fancy the blowsy wisdom of the country. |