blowzy, a.
(ˈblaʊzɪ)
Also blousy, blowsy.
[f. blowze + -y1.]
1. Like a blowze; having a bloated face; red and coarse-complexioned; flushed-looking.
| 1778 F. 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. 1787 Wolcott (P. Pindar) To Laureate Wks. 1812 I. 476 Large-red-poll'd, blowzy hard two-handed jades. 1880 Blackw. Mag. Feb. 221 Like a common-place blowzy dairymaid. |
| fig. 1922 Blackw. Mag. Mar. 353 That frousy, blousy, lousy tug. |
2. Of hair, dress: Dishevelled, frowzy, slatternly.
| c 1770 T. Erskine The Barber in Poet. Regr. (1810) 328 Long his beard, and blouzy hair. 1854 Thackeray Newcomes I. 137 Smiled at him from under her blowsy curl-papers. 1931 S. Benson Tobit Transplanted iii. 33 His mother's large blousy bun of hair was always coming down. |
3. Coarse, rustic.
| 1851 Helps Comp. Solit. v. (1874) 64, I cannot fancy the blowsy wisdom of the country. |