blowie

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blowie

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From blow + -ie (“diminutive suffix”).

noun blowies

  1. slang A blow job. "I said," my friend says on the phone, "I can call the cops and have you arrested or you can give me a blowie."
  2. Australia, slang A blowfly, Lucilia cuprina. 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.
  3. Australia, slang The common toadfish, Tetractenos hamiltoni. 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.

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@misc{blowie_2026,
  title = {blowie},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/blowie},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}