a. Also blowsed. [It has the form of a pa. pple. of a vb. to blowze, in the sense of ‘to make blowzy’: cf. prec.]
1. Rendered blowzy in the face; excited; disordered in dress or hair; disheveled, frowzy.
1766. Goldsm., Vic. W., x. I don’t like to see my daughters trudging up to their pew all blowzed and red with walking. Ibid., xi. My eldest daughter was hemmed in and thumped about, all blowzed in spirits, and bawling for fairplay.
1847. Tennyson, Princess, IV. 260. Huge women blowzed with health and wind and rain And labour.
1884. Longm. Mag., June, 175. The cook came out with tolerably ‘blowsed’ hair.
† 2. Blowzed off (see quot.). Obs.
1748. Richardson, Clarissa (1811), VIII. xli. 156. The paint lying in streaky seams not half blowzed off, discovering coarse wrinkled skins.
