blowsabella
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blowsabella
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18th-century Great Britain. From a character in John Gay's 1714 poem The Shepherd's Week.
noun blowsabellas · blousabella · blousalinda · blouzabella · blouzalinda · blowsalinda
- 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!
- A hot-tempered, unjustifiably angry woman, usually stereotyped as a red-haired Irish maidservant.
- 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.
- A promiscuous woman or prostitute. It is the way of the world. It is just as well Polly is faithless. If it were otherwise, she would very likely break her heart for him.¶ And deep down in his muddled mind he knows that stately ship as the symbol of his first love, a love more cruel in her way than this poor Blowsabella of Paradise S
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title = {blowsabella},
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year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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