English Explanatory Dictionary

blowsabella

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A rural woman; a country wench.
  2. A hot-tempered, unjustifiably angry woman, usually stereotyped as a red-haired Irish maidservant.
  3. A disheveled woman; a slattern.
  4. A promiscuous woman or prostitute.

Word forms

blowsabella blowsabellas blousabella blousalinda blouzabella blouzalinda blowsalinda blowzabella blowzelinda

Etymology

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

Synonyms

prostitute
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