blowze

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments (2)  · 

View all »
Definitions (3)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (2)

  1. A beggar's trull; a beggar wench; a wench. Wed without my advice, my love, my knowledge, Ay, and a beggar, too, a trull, a blowse! Chapman, All Fools, iv. 1. Venus herself, the queen of Cytheron, … is but a blowze. Shirley, Love Tricks, iii. 5.
  2. A ruddy, fat-faced wench; a blowzy woman: applied in Shakspere to an infant. Sweet blowse, you are a beauteous blossom sure. Shak., Tit. And., iv. 2.

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (1)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

 

Tags

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

Blowze has been looked up 74 times, favorited 0 times, listed 4 times, and commented on twice.

stop updating
On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Etymologies (1)

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (1)

  1. Also spelled blowse, blouse, blouze, English dial. blawse; cf. blowess. Origin uncertain.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »

If you'd like to prod us on getting a pronunciation for this word, sign in (or sign up) and let us know.

Charts
frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

We are still working on calculating this word's frequency.

Recent Lookups

cornice · iuxta · couronne · hardpan · bien

Recent Favorites

TelePalmter · Espoo · stick-to-it-iveness · supine · doxastic

Recent Pronunciations

milosrdenstvi · lichen-covered · futon · sagacity · monoragngocious