Meanings
plural blowies
- slanglifestyleA blow job.
2010, Zoe Foster, Playing the Field, Round 23: The Enchantress vs The Press, unnumbered page, ‘A brothel. Anyway, they got kicked out ′cos one of them – not Josh – took photos on his mobile of some bird giving him a blowie, and she flipped out.’
2 more examples
"I said," my friend says on the phone, "I can call the cops and have you arrested or you can give me a blowie."
2008, Shane Lindemoen, Empire Dirt, Fallen Publishing, page 91‘I didn′t mind being groped by him,’ Crystal replied. ‘He was cute. In fact I′m looking forward to later; don′t I have to pretend to give him a blowie?’
2009, Katie Price, Crystal, page 312 - AustraliaslangA blowfly, Lucilia cuprina.
The blowie was still hoverin around making random swoops on Boris who by now was well beyond caring.
2007, Gayle Kennedy, Me, Antman & Fleabag, page 802 more examples
I woke just in time to hear the first blowie of the day buzzing around. You know the night's over when you hear the first blowie.
1997, John Marsden, Burning for Revenge, page 22Mouths are clamped shut to keep out blowies, with a slit at the corner prised open in case speech - preferably laconic - is necessary; miseries are borne with a stoical shrug.
2010, Peter Conrad, The Monthly, April 2010, Issue 55, The Monthly Ptd Ltd, page 50 - AustraliaslangThe common toadfish, Tetractenos hamiltoni.
Nat was puffing and heaving like a blowie on a jetty.
2000, Wendy Jenkins, Gunna Burn, page 1522 more examples
There was always a mob fishing from the jetty, although nobody ever caught much — just trumpeters and gobblies and blowies, and sometimes the pretty little yellow-tail with their golden scales and blue spots.
1983, T. A. G. Hungerford, Stories from Suburban Road, page 74Cervantes was where I caught my first fish, a blowie, and copped my first bad sunburn — much to my father′s dismay, because my mother had stressed the importance of sun protection and how could he have gotten me so burnt?
2007, Glyn Parry, Ocean Road, page 102
Origin
From blow + -ie (“diminutive suffix”).
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