Blowsy

//ˈblaʊzi// adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Having a reddish, coarse complexion, especially with a pudgy face.

    "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"

  2. 2
    Slovenly or unkempt, in the manner of a beggar or slattern.

    "Her hair so untidy, so blowsy!"

  3. 3
    Unrefined, countrified.

    "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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    characteristic of or befitting a slut or slattern; used especially of women wordnet

Etymology

From blows(e) + -y.

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