What does blowzed mean?
Blowzed means Rendered blowsy by weather, drink, exertion, etc..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Rendered blowsy by weather, drink, exertion, etc..
You know the church is two miles off, and I protest I don't like to see my daughters trudging up to their pew all blowzed and red with walking, and looking for all the world as ift hey had been winners at a smock race.
Suffice it to say, the day was glorious and the company jovial ; we were bustling, blowzed and boisterous to the full measure of our wishes ; and the festivities of the occasion, as the newspapers say, " went off with great hilarity and good feeling.
It was in this manner that my eldest daughter was hemmed in and thumped about, all blowzed, in spirits, and bawling for fair play with a voice that might deafen a ballad-singer, when, confusion on confusion! who should enter the room, but our two great acquaintances from town, Lady Blarney and Miss Carolina Wilhelmina Amelia Skeggs?
Somehow or other, by dint of pushing and pulling, they did attain the street at last ; where Miss Miggs, all blowzed with the exertion of getting there, and with her sobs and tears, sat down upon her property; to rest and grieve until she could ensnare some other youth to help her home.
Huge women blowzed with health and wind and rain
With Tourlou's lady I could have no sympathy; she being a fat, blowzed, arrogant creature that would stand upon her position, whatever that might be.
All the women who swarm about the Highway are not immorally distorted specimens of the heroine of “Wapping Old Stairs,” however blowzed with ardent spirits, careless in respect of head dress, and down at the heel as a great many of them are.
" What a blowzed condition you are in, child ! " exclaimed Mrs. Mustley, as Kate came running in, one morning, to tell her uncle, with great glee, that she had spied a blackbird's nest in the old thorn-tree on the lawn, low enough for her, when Matty lifted her up, to peep in and see three young ones huddling together in the nest, to keep each other warm.
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Blowzed means Rendered blowsy by weather, drink, exertion, etc..
Common synonyms include blowsy, blowzy.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
You know the church is two miles off, and I protest I don't like to see my daughters trudging up to their pew all blowzed and red with walking, and looking for all the world as ift hey had been winners at a smock race.
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