See blowsy on Wiktionary
{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "blowsily"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "blowsiness"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "blowse",
"3": "y"
},
"expansion": "blowse + -y",
"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From blowse + -y.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "blowsier",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "blowsiest",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "er"
},
"expansion": "blowsy (comparative blowsier, superlative blowsiest)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "82 5 13",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "77 3 20",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms suffixed with -y",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "84 2 14",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Entries with translation boxes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "86 2 12",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "90 2 8",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "68 17 15",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1778, Samuel Crisp, The early journals and letters of Fanny Burney, volume III, published 1994, page 188:",
"text": "They put me in mind of a poor Girl, a Miss Peachy (a real, & in the end, a melancholy Story)—she was a fine young Woman; but thinking herself too ruddy & blowsy, it was her Custom to bleed herself (an Art she had learn’d on purpose) 3 or 4 times against the Rugby Races in order to appear more dainty & Lady-like at the balls, &c",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1861, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter XI, in Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, part I, page 186:",
"text": "[…] with a face made blowsy by the cold and damp.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1913, Louis Joseph Vance, chapter 13, in The Day of Days:",
"text": "[…] a man of, say, well-preserved sixty, with a blowsy plump face and fat white side-whiskers.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Having a reddish, coarse complexion, especially with a pudgy face."
],
"id": "en-blowsy-en-adj-Rnm3xyPc",
"links": [
[
"reddish",
"reddish"
],
[
"coarse",
"coarse"
],
[
"complexion",
"complexion"
],
[
"pudgy",
"pudgy"
]
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "92 2 5",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "začerven",
"sense": "Having a reddish, coarse complexion",
"word": "зачервен"
},
{
"_dis1": "92 2 5",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "červendalest",
"sense": "Having a reddish, coarse complexion",
"word": "червендалест"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter 8, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:",
"text": "Her hair so untidy, so blowsy!",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Slovenly or unkempt, in the manner of a beggar or slattern."
],
"id": "en-blowsy-en-adj-KiVO0Qnt",
"links": [
[
"Slovenly",
"slovenly"
],
[
"unkempt",
"unkempt"
],
[
"beggar",
"beggar"
],
[
"slattern",
"slattern"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(chiefly of a woman's hair or dress) Slovenly or unkempt, in the manner of a beggar or slattern."
],
"raw_tags": [
"of a woman's hair or dress"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "7 90 3",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "rošav",
"sense": "Slovenly or unkept",
"word": "рошав"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 90 3",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "razdǎrpan",
"sense": "Slovenly or unkept",
"word": "раздърпан"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1921, John Buchan, chapter 11, in The Path of the King, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:",
"text": "He longed for the warmth and the smells of his favourite haunts—Gilpin's with oysters frizzling in a dozen pans, and noble odours stealing from the tap-room, the Green Man with its tripe-suppers, Wanless's Coffee House, noted for its cuts of beef and its white puddings. He would give much to be in a chair by one of those hearths and in the thick of that blowsy fragrance.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC:",
"text": "The hot, blowsy country, remote from danger, had a lonely, forgotten feeling.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Unrefined, countrified."
],
"id": "en-blowsy-en-adj-CUtxDTyv",
"links": [
[
"Unrefined",
"unrefined"
],
[
"countrified",
"countrified"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈblaʊzi/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-aʊzi"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "blousy"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "blouzy"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "blowsey"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "blowzy"
}
],
"word": "blowsy"
}
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English terms suffixed with -y",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:English/aʊzi",
"Rhymes:English/aʊzi/2 syllables",
"Terms with Bulgarian translations"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "blowsily"
},
{
"word": "blowsiness"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "blowse",
"3": "y"
},
"expansion": "blowse + -y",
"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From blowse + -y.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "blowsier",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "blowsiest",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "er"
},
"expansion": "blowsy (comparative blowsier, superlative blowsiest)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1778, Samuel Crisp, The early journals and letters of Fanny Burney, volume III, published 1994, page 188:",
"text": "They put me in mind of a poor Girl, a Miss Peachy (a real, & in the end, a melancholy Story)—she was a fine young Woman; but thinking herself too ruddy & blowsy, it was her Custom to bleed herself (an Art she had learn’d on purpose) 3 or 4 times against the Rugby Races in order to appear more dainty & Lady-like at the balls, &c",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1861, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter XI, in Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, part I, page 186:",
"text": "[…] with a face made blowsy by the cold and damp.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1913, Louis Joseph Vance, chapter 13, in The Day of Days:",
"text": "[…] a man of, say, well-preserved sixty, with a blowsy plump face and fat white side-whiskers.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Having a reddish, coarse complexion, especially with a pudgy face."
],
"links": [
[
"reddish",
"reddish"
],
[
"coarse",
"coarse"
],
[
"complexion",
"complexion"
],
[
"pudgy",
"pudgy"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter 8, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:",
"text": "Her hair so untidy, so blowsy!",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Slovenly or unkempt, in the manner of a beggar or slattern."
],
"links": [
[
"Slovenly",
"slovenly"
],
[
"unkempt",
"unkempt"
],
[
"beggar",
"beggar"
],
[
"slattern",
"slattern"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(chiefly of a woman's hair or dress) Slovenly or unkempt, in the manner of a beggar or slattern."
],
"raw_tags": [
"of a woman's hair or dress"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1921, John Buchan, chapter 11, in The Path of the King, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:",
"text": "He longed for the warmth and the smells of his favourite haunts—Gilpin's with oysters frizzling in a dozen pans, and noble odours stealing from the tap-room, the Green Man with its tripe-suppers, Wanless's Coffee House, noted for its cuts of beef and its white puddings. He would give much to be in a chair by one of those hearths and in the thick of that blowsy fragrance.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC:",
"text": "The hot, blowsy country, remote from danger, had a lonely, forgotten feeling.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Unrefined, countrified."
],
"links": [
[
"Unrefined",
"unrefined"
],
[
"countrified",
"countrified"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈblaʊzi/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-aʊzi"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "blousy"
},
{
"word": "blouzy"
},
{
"word": "blowsey"
},
{
"word": "blowzy"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "začerven",
"sense": "Having a reddish, coarse complexion",
"word": "зачервен"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "červendalest",
"sense": "Having a reddish, coarse complexion",
"word": "червендалест"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "rošav",
"sense": "Slovenly or unkept",
"word": "рошав"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "razdǎrpan",
"sense": "Slovenly or unkept",
"word": "раздърпан"
}
],
"word": "blowsy"
}
Download raw JSONL data for blowsy meaning in All languages combined (4.3kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.