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Definition: Blowzy |
BlowzyAdjective1. Used especially of women. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "blowzy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1814. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Blowzy Coarse, red-faced, bloated; applied to women. The word is allied to blush, blaze, etc. (Dutch, bloozen and blaazen; Danish, blusser, to blaze.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: BlowzySynonyms: blowsy (adj), slatternly (adj), sluttish (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Expansion | Adjective: expanded; Verb: larger; (large; swollen; expansive; wide open, wide spread; flabelliform; overgrown, exaggerated, bloated, fat, turgid, tumid, hypertrophied, dropsical; pot bellied, swag bellied; edematous, oedematous, obese, puffy, pursy, blowzy, bigswoln, distended; patulous; bulbous; (convex); full blown, full grown, full formed; big; abdominous, enchymatous, rhipidate; tumefacient, tumefying. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Blowzy |
| English words defined with "blowzy": Blowzed. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | A porters uniform outside a restaurant and six penny tips from belching civilians for closing cab doors on their blowzy women (The Man Who Would Be King; writing credit: Gladys Hill; John Huston) | |
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| "Blowzy" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Blowzy" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "blowzy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | të pakrehur. (various references) | |
Arabic | منفوش, متورد الخدين, أشعث (disheveled, dishevelled, frowzy, ragged, shaggy, tousled, unkempt). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | зачервен (ablush, bloodshot, high-colored, high-coloured, purple, red). (various references) | |
Czech | neupravený (dowdy, mussy, sloppy, undressed, unkempt, untidy, wild). (various references) | |
Farsi | سرخ گونه (Blowsy), سرخ روی (Blowsy), زمخت (Blowsy, Churlish, Clumsy, Coarse, Crass, Crude, Gross, Hard, Impolite, Raucous, Rough, Rude, Rugged, Tough), زن چاق (Blowsy), خشن (Blatant, Blowsy, Boorish, Brutish, Churlish, Coarse, Crusty, Gruff, Harsh, High, Hoarse, Impolite, Indelicate, Knockkneed, Plebeian, Ragged, Random, Rough, Rowdy, Rude, Scraggy, Truculent, Ungracious, Unkempt, Unmannered, Unmennerly, Wooden), شلخته (Slipshod, Sloppy, Slovenly, Sordid). (various references) | |
French | venteux, venté, débraillé. (various references) | |
German | schlampig (bedraggled, careless, draggled, frowzy, frumpish, grubby, grumblingly, slack, slatternly, sleazily, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly, untidy). (various references) | |
Greek | ακατάστατοσ (disorderly, frowsy, frowzy, messy, mussy, slatternly, slob, sloppy, slovenly, unsettled, untidy), ατημέλητοσ (negligee). (various references) | |
Hungarian | zilált (deranged, disheveled, dishevelled, distempered, inordinate, rooky, ruffled, straggly, tousled), torzonborz (hirsute), rendetlen külsejű, pufók (chubby, rotund), piros arcú, kócos (disheveled, dishevelled, ruffled, rumpled, shock), elhanyagolt külsejű (draggle-tailed, floppy, frumpish, slatternly), borzas hajú. (various references) | |
Italian | sciatto (careless, dowdy, frowzy, pig, shabby, sleazily, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly, unkempt). (various references) | |
Manx | streelagh (loitering). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | owzyblay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | relaxado (loose, untidy), despenteado (disheveled, dishevelled, unkempt), desalinhado (frowzy, messy, slovenly, untidy), corado (ablush, blushing, colored, coloured, florid, flush, full-blooded, high-colored, high-coloured, red-faced, rubicund, ruddy). (various references) | |
Romanian | roşu la faţã (sanguinary, sanguine), ciufulit (dishevelled, fluffy, ruffled, rumpled, tousled, unkempt). (various references) | |
Russian | толстый и краснощекий. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | razbarušen (disheveled, dishevelled, ruffle up, tousled, unkempt), aljkav (dowdy, grubby, littery, slatternly, slipshod, slipslop, sloppy, slovenly, unkempt). (various references) | |
Spanish | desastrado (hapless, miserable, seedy, sorrowful, unhappy, unlucky), desaliñado (disheveled, dishevelled, dowdy, dowdyish, down at heel, frowzy, frumpish, messy, neglected, scruffy, slovenly, tacky, unkempt, untidy), dejado (abandoned, abandonee, dung, left, legacy, lost, relaxed, slovenly, untidy), coloradote. (various references) | |
Swedish | sjaskig (dowdy, flea-bitten, grubby, scrubby, scruffy, seedy, shabby, sleazy, tattered), rufsig (dishevelled, tousled), rödbrusig (rubicund). (various references) | |
Turkish | saçı başı dağınık, kırmızı suratlı (rubicund). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | розхристаний, товстий і червонощокий. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thô kệch tóc tai rũ rượi; nhếch nhác lôi thôi (blowzed). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Blowzy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Blazy, blewz, blowy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-l-o-w-y-z" | |
-1 letter: blowy. | |
-2 letters: blow, bowl, yowl. | |
-3 letters: bow, boy, lob, low, owl, yob, yow. | |
-4 letters: bo, by, lo, ow, oy, wo, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-l-o-w-y-z" | |
+2 letters: blowzily. | |
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