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English
Verb
bellowsed
- simple past and past participle of bellows
Adjective
bellowsed (not comparable)
- Furnished with a bellows (of a particular type).
- a long-bellowsed camera
- Short of breath. (of a horse)
1944, “The Grist Mill”, in Benjamin A. Botkin, editor, A Treasury of American Folklore, New York: Crown Publishers, page 411:He burst into the sitting-room, covered with meal and panting like a bellowsed horse, frightening my grandmother almost into hysterics.
- (obsolete, slang) Deported to a penal colony, transported.
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References
- ^ Albert Barrère and Charles G. Leland (editors), A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant, London: Ballantyne, 1889, p. 104.
- ^ Jay Robert Nash, Dictionary of Crime, New York: Paragon, 1992, p. 24.