blowsy
/ˈblaʊzi/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.27 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Having a reddish, coarse complexion, especially with a pudgy face.
adj
Example Sentences
- "They put me in mind of a poor Girl, a Miss Peachy (a real, & in the end, a melancholy Story)—she was a fine young Woman; but thinking herself too ruddy & blowsy, it was her Custom to bleed herself (an Art she had learn’d on purpose) 3 or 4 times against the Rugby Races in order to appear more dainty & Lady-like at the balls, &c"
- "[…] with a face made blowsy by the cold and damp."
- "[…] a man of, say, well-preserved sixty, with a blowsy plump face and fat white side-whiskers."
- "Her hair so untidy, so blowsy!"
- "The double-breasted blazer which is on every front row this season came with an elbow-length sleeve for spring, while jumpsuits, a signature of the label, came slinky and tailored or in a blowsier boiler suit silhouette."
- "He longed for the warmth and the smells of his favourite haunts—Gilpin's with oysters frizzling in a dozen pans, and noble odours stealing from the tap-room, the Green Man with its tripe-suppers, Wanless's Coffee House, noted for its cuts of beef and its white puddings. He would give much to be in a chair by one of those hearths and in the thick of that blowsy fragrance."
Etymology
Etymology tree English blows(e) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English blowsy From blows(e) + -y.