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blowze (blaʊz) Also 6 blowesse, 6–7 blowse, 7 blouze, 8 blowz, 6– blouse. [Of unknown origin: cf. various Du. and LG. words with the sense of ‘red’ or ‘flushed’ under blush; but some of the uses appear to be influenced by blow v.1 Perhaps originally a cant term. Cf. blowen.] † 1. A beggar's trull, a...
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blowzy
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...
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blowzing
† ˈblowzing, a. Obs. [In form a pr. pple. of a vb. to blowze: cf. blowzed a.] Tending to be blowzy.1753 Richardson Grandison (1781) V. ix. 48 Aunt Nell, who has naturally a good blowzing north-country complexion, turned as pale as ashes. a 1851 J. Baillie (O). That blowzing wig of his.
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blowzed
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.1766 Goldsm. Vic. W. x, I don't like to see my daughters trudging up to their ...
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blouse
▪ I. blouse, n. (blaʊz) [a. mod.F. blouse (pron. bluz) of obscure etymology: see Littré and Scheler.] 1. a. A light loose upper garment of linen or cotton, resembling a shirt or smock-frock; properly applied (as an alien term) to the well-known blue blouse of the French workman, but in England somet...
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roil
▪ I. † roil, n.1 Obs. Forms: 6 roile, 6–8 royle, 7 royl, 8 roil. [Of obscure origin.] 1. An inferior or spiritless horse.1523 Skelton Dk. Albany 270 As it were a gote In a shepe cote,..Therin, lyke a royle, Sir Dunkan, ye dared. 1576 Gascoigne Philomene (Arb.) 117 That horse which tyreth like a roil...
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Z
Z (zɛd, U.S. ziː) the twenty-sixth and last letter of the English and other modern alphabets, derives its form, through the medium of the Latin and Greek alphabets, from the Phœnician and ancient Hebrew {semzayin1} {semzayin2} {semzayin3} (Hebrew ז zayin); in the Phœnician, Greek, and earlier Roman...
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