Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Blowzy; made ruddy and coarse-complexioned, as by exposure to the weather; fat and high-colored.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having high color from exposure to the weather; ruddy-faced; blowzy; disordered.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having high colour from exposure to the weather; ruddy-faced; disordered.
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Examples
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Miggs, all blowzed with the exertion of getting there, and with her sobs and tears, sat down upon her property to rest and grieve, until she could ensnare some other youth to help her home.
Barnaby Rudge 2007
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It was in this manner that my eldest daughter was hemmed in, and thumped about, all blowzed, in spirits, and bawling for fair play, fair play, with a voice that might deafen a ballad singer, when confusion on confusion, who should enter the room but our two great acquaintances from town, Lady Blarney and Miss Carolina Wilelmina
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Twenty blowzed and bearded men, ravenous and wild-eyed with hunger, presently file into the room.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 Various
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Huge women blowzed with health, and wind, and rain
Early Reviews of English Poets John Louis Haney
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She had been dancing, and she was warm and red, her hair blowzed about her head.
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You know the church is two miles off, and I protest I don't like to see my daughters trudging up to their pew all blowzed and red with walking, and looking for all the world as if they had been winners at a [v] smock race.
The Literary World Seventh Reader Hetty Sibyl Browne 1907
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Meeting one of the blowzed and slatternly female servants, Landless asked where they might find the overseer.
Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia Mary Johnston 1903
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I looked again, and saw -- and see -- a rose amongst blowzed poppies and peonies, a pearl amidst glass beads, a Perdita in a ring of rustics, a nonparella of all grace and beauty!
To Have and to Hold Mary Johnston 1903
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Huge women _blowzed_ with health, and wind, and rain,
Famous Reviews R. Brimley Johnson 1899
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He had a rosy face: in spite of former long sea-wear, not blowzed, but delicately tinted; he snuffled when he talked in a way which I could only define as classical; and it was admitted that his nosegay vest and blue coat, as far as tender refinement went, far surpassed anything in the room.
Vesty of the Basins Sarah P. McLean Greene 1895
minerva commented on the word blowzed
ruddy-faced, high-colored (from wind or sun); also disheveled, disordered
December 5, 2007
minerva commented on the word blowzed
The other seven seemed to have been just up, risen perhaps from their customers in the fore-house, and their nocturnal orgies, with faces, three or four of them, that had run, the paint lying in streaky seams not half blowzed off, discovering coarse wrinkled skins...
Belford to Lovelace, Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
December 5, 2007