Blowsabella

Quick meaning: Blowsabella is a noun meaning (obsolete) A rural woman; a country wench.

Meaning

(obsolete) A rural woman; a country wench.

More Meanings

1. (obsolete, by extension) A hot-tempered, unjustifiably angry woman, usually stereotyped as a red-haired Irish maidservant.
2. (obsolete, by extension) A disheveled woman; a slattern.
3. (obsolete, by extension) A promiscuous woman or prostitute.

Example Sentences

This was no Blowsabella, this was no buxom, forward, romping girl, to meet with a reward for her folly.

So ridiculous was Waller's second wife in the eyes of Johnson, even with Tetty, his own red-faced Blowsabella, vividly surviving in his remembrance!

"I declare I have not been able to get a single glance in the glass, and I am sure I shall look a regular Blouzabella," remarked a sparkling brunette.

Before his beard was grey, he took to wife the offspring of one of his own tenants; a buxom Blousalinda, who outlived all his brutality, and buried him at last, more decently than he deserved; though she professed herself heart-broken before the honeymoon had waned.

Word Forms

• blowsabellas
• blousabella
• blousalinda
• blouzabella
• blouzalinda
• blowsalinda
• blowzabella
• blowzelinda

Synonyms for blowsabella

Depending on context, synonyms include prostitute.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include blowsalinda, blousabella, blouzabella, blousalinda, blouzalinda, blowse.

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