a. Also blousy, blowsy. [f. BLOWZE + -Y1.]
1. Like a blowze; having a bloated face; red and coarse-complexioned; flushed-looking.
1778. Mad. D’Arblay, Diary & Lett., I. 149. Thinking herself too ruddy and blowzy, it was her custom to bleed herself three or four times against the Rugby races.
1787. Wolcott (P. Pindar), To Laureate, Wks. 1812, I. 476. Large-red-poll’d, blowzy hard two-handed jades.
1880. Blackw. Mag., Feb., 221. Like a common-place blowzy dairymaid.
2. Of hair, dress: Disheveled, frowzy, slatternly.
c. 1770. T. Erskine, The Barber, in Poet. Regr. (1810), 328. Long his beard, and blouzy hair.
1854. Thackeray, Newcomes, I. 137. Smiled at him from under her blowsy curl-papers.
3. Coarse, rustic.
1851. Helps, Comp. Solit., v. (1874), 64. I cannot fancy the blowsy wisdom of the country.
