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blowsabella

noun

Etymology

18th-century Great Britain. From a character in John Gay's 1714 poem The Shepherd's Week.

Definitions

  1. A rural woman

    A rural woman; a country wench.

    • So ridiculous was Waller's second wife in the eyes of Johnson, even with Tetty, his own red-faced Blowsabella, vividly surviving in his remembrance!
    • This was no Blowsabella, this was no buxom, forward, romping girl, to meet with a reward for her folly.

  2. A hot-tempered, unjustifiably angry woman, usually stereotyped as a red-haired Irish…

    A hot-tempered, unjustifiably angry woman, usually stereotyped as a red-haired Irish maidservant.

  3. A disheveled woman

    A disheveled woman; a slattern.

    • "I declare I have not been able to get a single glance in the glass, and I am sure I shall look a regular Blouzabella," remarked a sparkling brunette.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. A promiscuous woman or prostitute.

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