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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective blowzy has 1 sense
- blowzy(s = adj.all) blowsy, slatternly, sluttish - characteristic of or befitting a slut or slattern; used especially of women; Array
CIDE DICTIONARY
blowzy, a.
Coarse and ruddy-faced; fat and ruddy; high colored; frowzy. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
blowzy, adj. (blowzier, blowziest)
1 coarse-looking; red-faced.
2 dishevelled, slovenly.
1 coarse-looking; red-faced.
2 dishevelled, slovenly.
Derivative
blowzily adv. blowziness n.
Etymology
obs. blowze beggar's wench, of unkn. orig.
THESAURUS
blowzy
adipose, beat-up, bedraggled, beefy, big-bellied, bloated, blooming, blowzed, bosomy, brawny, burly, burnt, buxom, careless, chintzy, chubby, chunky, corpulent, dilapidated, distended, drabbletailed, draggled, draggletailed, dumpy, fat, fattish, fleshy, florid, flush, flushed, frowzy, frumpish, frumpy, full, full-blooded, glowing, gross, grubby, heavyset, hectic, hefty, hippy, imposing, in rags, informal, loose, lumpen, lusty, meaty, messy, mussy, negligent, obese, overweight, paunchy, plump, podgy, poky, portly, potbellied, pudgy, puffy, pursy, ragged, raggedy, red-complexioned, red-faced, red-fleshed, roly-poly, rosy, rosy-cheeked, rotund, rubicund, ruddy, ruddy-complexioned, ruddy-faced, ruinous, sanguine, scraggly, seedy, shabby, shoddy, slack, slatternly, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly, sluttish, sordid, squalid, square, squat, squatty, stalwart, stocky, stout, strapping, sunburned, swollen, tacky, tattered, thick-bodied, thickset, top-heavy, tubby, unkempt, unneat, unsightly, untidy, well-fedROGET THESAURUS
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Expansion
N expansion, increase of size, enlargement, extension, augmentation, amplification, ampliation, aggrandizement, spread, increment, growth, development, pullulation, swell, dilation, rarefaction, turgescence, turgidness, turgidity, dispansion, obesity, hydrocephalus, hydrophthalmus, dropsy, tumefaction, intumescence, swelling, tumor, diastole, distension, puffing, puffiness, inflation, pandiculation, dilatability, expansibility, germination, growth, upgrowth, accretion, budding, gemmation, overgrowth, overdistension, hypertrophy, tympany, bulb, plumper, superiority of size, big bang, Hubble constant, expanded larger, &c (large), swollen, expansive, wide open, wide spread, flabelliform, overgrown, exaggerated, bloated, fat, turgid, tumid, hypertrophied, dropsical, pot bellied, swag bellied, edematous, oedematous, obese, puffy, pursy, blowzy, bigswoln, distended, patulous, bulbous, full blown, full grown, full formed, big, abdominous, enchymatous, rhipidate, tumefacient, tumefying.Redness
N redness, red, scarlet, vermilion, carmine, crimson, pink, lake, maroon, carnation, couleur de rose, rose du Barry, magenta, damask, purple, flesh color, flesh tint, color, fresh color, high color, warmth, gules, ruby, carbuncle, rose, rust, iron mold, cinnabar, cochineal, fuchsine, ruddle, madder, Indian red, light red, Venetian red, red ink, annotto, annatto, realgar, minium, red lead, redness, rubescence, rubicundity, rubification, erubescence, blush, red, reddish, rufous, ruddy, florid, incarnadine, sanguine, rosy, roseate, blowzy, blowed, burnt, rubicund, rubiform, lurid, stammell blood red, russet buff, murrey, carroty, sorrel, lateritious, rubineous, rubricate, rubricose, rufulous, rose-colored, ruby-colored, cherry-colored, claret-colored, flame- colored, flesh-colored, peach-colored, salmon-colored, brick-colored, brick-colored, dust-colored, blushing, erubescent, reddened, red as fire, red as blood, red as scarlet, red as a turkey cock, red as a lobster, warm, hot, foxy.
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