blowzed

comparative more blowzed · superlative most blowzed

1. Rendered blowsy by weather, drink, exertion, etc.

   Huge women blowzed with health and wind and rain

   1847, Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Princess

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   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.

   1766, Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield

   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.

   1832, Joseph Tinker Buckingham, Edwin Buckingham, Samuel Gridley Howe, The New-England Magazine - Volume 3, page 123

   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?

   1832, Illustrations of Smollett, Fielding, and Goldsmith

   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.

   1841, Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty, page 630

   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.

   1859, The Living Age - Volume 60, page 173

   Synonyms: blowsy, blowzy