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词汇 blowsy
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Definition of blowsy in English:

blowsy

(also blowzy)
adjectiveblowsier, blowsiestˈblaʊziˈblaʊzi
  • (of a woman) coarse, untidy, and red-faced.

    (女性)粗俗、邋遢且面色发红的

    the cheap perfume worn by the blowsy woman
    figurative blowsy, old-fashioned roses
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Hector thought she looked blowsy, her primness hoisted for the Missionaries squirreled away again.
    • A blowsy kitchen helper is full of sage advice. There's also a younger brother to tell him what to do.
    • She is blowsy, slightly needy, and struggling to keep in check the precocious sexuality of her only daughter, aptly named Lolita.
    • The fact that he recast her as a housemaid or a blowsy country lass is indicative of his desire to distance and protect himself from painful memories.
    • When I first went out to readings and met people I did get a sense that they hoped this blowsy, loudmouthed, oversexed creature was going to burst forth.
    • On the other side, a blowsy woman in peasant garb leans back on a swing, revealing a full view up her petticoats.
    • The actress is as irritating as she is perfect in the role of feckless and blowsy Kathy who loses her house after a mix up with local taxes.
    • But his smoothie solicitor is having an affair with his blowsy, sexy wife Carol and the whole situation is ready to explode.
    • However, in place of the suggestive delicacy of traditional ink painting, his bees and butterflies are realized with the blowsy directness of American Pop art.
    • He survives by using his kick-boxing skills, defending himself and his haphazard household, a family composed of an effeminate hustler named Taboo, a blowzy hooker called Laurita, and her baby of indeterminate origin.
    • And that woman, that blowsy, strident woman who insists on telling everybody what she thinks of them.
    • On the stage, Valerie, a pale, blowsy woman, is shouting out the answers from the last round.
    • Speculation has centred on what combination of tranquillisers or diet pills is coursing through the blowsy Texan's bloodstream as she rolls around on her bed, rubs herself up against walls and employees while cooing inanities.
    • She's among the most sought-after strumpets on the scene, a brash and blowsy blonde babe whose sassy strip-club allure promises to be on the scene for some time to come.
    • The gaunt actress looks more like a heroin addict than the blowzy drunk he had in mind (read the text - it's not just my mental image of the character that she doesn't fit).
    • She is Jane, blowsy but a tease.
    • The staging in Act I uses a trio of boxes for separate scenes - the kitchen, a ballet studio for the blowsy stepsisters' dancing lesson, a frame for the Seasons divertissement.
    • The actress is chirpy and loose as blowzy broad Dolores in a show that proves you can do worse than taking in a crass melodrama.
    • He meekly obeys when he is told by this blowsy female partner to take a small child on a visit to his mother in a distant town.
    • The actress, as the blowsy, chain - smoking dance teacher, is sadly underused.
    Synonyms
    untidy, sloppy, scruffy, messy, dishevelled, slovenly, sluttish, slatternly, tousled, unkempt, frowzy, slipshod, bedraggled, down at heel
    coarse-looking
    red-faced, ruddy, florid, ruddy-complexioned, flushed, raddled, rubicund, rubescent

Derivatives

  • blowsily

  • adverb
    • I felt less than perfectly free and loose and inspired, however, and returned to my neighborhood only 30 minutes later, where I was hailed in the dark by two new neighbours sitting in Rob's parlor - Felicia, a cheerful, charismatic brunette, and Meg, a blowsily pretty blonde.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • But his chief opponent, the blowsily good-hearted, promiscuous Ida loses much of her instinctive belief in right and wrong.
      • When I look at her blowsily lyrical and sneakily philosophical abstractions, satisfaction reigns, replete with delicate discriminations and a certain funny, sexy moodiness.
      • Friday night in an attractive beach town: tourists, clubs, beautiful little streets - a strange combination of a real, honestly beautiful and still fairly natural, Spanish town, combined with intermittent bursts of the trash and commercialization you can expect in a blowsily commercial resort.
      • In one vigorous print, Mary sits blowsily at a table guzzling gin (a low-class drink) with her servants, legs indecorously spread and garter drooping.
  • blowsiness

  • noun
    • You also hear some blowsiness, a touch of vulgarity, an overindulgence of her baritonal chest register.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It could also be that the blowsiness of the horns conjure up a steamy Southern atmosphere.
      • We can't help but respond to the spectacle of a bearded iris, the blowsiness of a rose or a sunflower's jolly petal face.
      • And this looseness and blowsiness is not anything as simple and scandalous as abrupt and disordered syntax.
      • We want it to have fresh fruit; apricot, pear, and effective sweetness without blowsiness.

Origin

Early 17th century: from obsolete blowze 'beggar's female companion', of unknown origin.

Rhymes

Dalhousie, drowsy, frowzy, housey-housey, lousy

Definition of blowsy in US English:

blowsy

(also blowzy)
adjectiveˈblouzēˈblaʊzi
  • (of a woman) coarse, untidy, and red-faced.

    (女性)粗俗、邋遢且面色发红的

    figurative blowsy, old-fashioned roses
    a blowsy woman wearing Bermuda shorts and a Bally's sweatshirt
    Example sentencesExamples
    • A blowsy kitchen helper is full of sage advice. There's also a younger brother to tell him what to do.
    • She's among the most sought-after strumpets on the scene, a brash and blowsy blonde babe whose sassy strip-club allure promises to be on the scene for some time to come.
    • When I first went out to readings and met people I did get a sense that they hoped this blowsy, loudmouthed, oversexed creature was going to burst forth.
    • She is blowsy, slightly needy, and struggling to keep in check the precocious sexuality of her only daughter, aptly named Lolita.
    • And that woman, that blowsy, strident woman who insists on telling everybody what she thinks of them.
    • The actress is chirpy and loose as blowzy broad Dolores in a show that proves you can do worse than taking in a crass melodrama.
    • He meekly obeys when he is told by this blowsy female partner to take a small child on a visit to his mother in a distant town.
    • The gaunt actress looks more like a heroin addict than the blowzy drunk he had in mind (read the text - it's not just my mental image of the character that she doesn't fit).
    • But his smoothie solicitor is having an affair with his blowsy, sexy wife Carol and the whole situation is ready to explode.
    • The actress, as the blowsy, chain - smoking dance teacher, is sadly underused.
    • On the stage, Valerie, a pale, blowsy woman, is shouting out the answers from the last round.
    • She is Jane, blowsy but a tease.
    • Speculation has centred on what combination of tranquillisers or diet pills is coursing through the blowsy Texan's bloodstream as she rolls around on her bed, rubs herself up against walls and employees while cooing inanities.
    • He survives by using his kick-boxing skills, defending himself and his haphazard household, a family composed of an effeminate hustler named Taboo, a blowzy hooker called Laurita, and her baby of indeterminate origin.
    • The fact that he recast her as a housemaid or a blowsy country lass is indicative of his desire to distance and protect himself from painful memories.
    • However, in place of the suggestive delicacy of traditional ink painting, his bees and butterflies are realized with the blowsy directness of American Pop art.
    • Hector thought she looked blowsy, her primness hoisted for the Missionaries squirreled away again.
    • The staging in Act I uses a trio of boxes for separate scenes - the kitchen, a ballet studio for the blowsy stepsisters' dancing lesson, a frame for the Seasons divertissement.
    • The actress is as irritating as she is perfect in the role of feckless and blowsy Kathy who loses her house after a mix up with local taxes.
    • On the other side, a blowsy woman in peasant garb leans back on a swing, revealing a full view up her petticoats.
    Synonyms
    untidy, sloppy, scruffy, messy, dishevelled, slovenly, sluttish, slatternly, tousled, unkempt, frowzy, slipshod, bedraggled, down at heel

Origin

Early 17th century: from obsolete blowze ‘beggar's female companion’, of unknown origin.

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