blowzed

blowzed (comparative more blowzed, superlative most blowzed)

1. Rendered blowsy by weather, drink, exertion, etc.
   • 1766, Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield:

     You know the church is two miles off, and I protest I don't like to see my daughters trudging up to their pew all blowzed and red with walking, and looking for all the world as ift hey had been winners at a smock race.

   • 1832, Joseph Tinker Buckingham, Edwin Buckingham, Samuel Gridley Howe, The New-England Magazine - Volume 3, page 123:

     Suffice it to say, the day was glorious and the company jovial ; we were bustling, blowzed and boisterous to the full measure of our wishes ; and the festivities of the occasion, as the newspapers say, " went off with great hilarity and good feeling.

   • 1832, Illustrations of Smollett, Fielding, and Goldsmith:

     It was in this manner that my eldest daughter was hemmed in and thumped about, all blowzed, in spirits, and bawling for fair play with a voice that might deafen a ballad-singer, when, confusion on confusion! who should enter the room, but our two great acquaintances from town, Lady Blarney and Miss Carolina Wilhelmina Amelia Skeggs?

   • 1841, Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty, page 630:

     Somehow or other, by dint of pushing and pulling, they did attain the street at last ; where Miss Miggs, all blowzed with the exertion of getting there, and with her sobs and tears, sat down upon her property; to rest and grieve until she could ensnare some other youth to help her home.

   • 1847, Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Princess:

     Huge women blowzed with health and wind and rain

   • 1859, The Living Age - Volume 60, page 173:

     With Tourlou's lady I could have no sympathy; she being a fat, blowzed, arrogant creature that would stand upon her position, whatever that might be.

   • 1872, The Nautical Magazine for 1872:

     All the women who swarm about the Highway are not immorally distorted specimens of the heroine of “Wapping Old Stairs,” however blowzed with ardent spirits, careless in respect of head dress, and down at the heel as a great many of them are.

   • 1875, Mary Cowden Clarke, The Iron Cousin ; Or, Mutual Influence, page 39:

     " What a blowzed condition you are in, child ! " exclaimed Mrs. Mustley, as Kate came running in, one morning, to tell her uncle, with great glee, that she had spied a blackbird's nest in the old thorn-tree on the lawn, low enough for her, when Matty lifted her up, to peep in and see three young ones huddling together in the nest, to keep each other warm.

   • 1912, Frank Sidgwick, Treasure of Thule: A Romance of Orkney, page 299:

     Crew all blowzed, but a slack day to-morrow, as Macrae must coal up.

   • 1994, “Cenotaph For Two Butterflies”, in Robert Stock, Harriette Stock, editors, Selected poems, 1947-1980, page 315:

     I doubt if you'll remember (we were younger then since bygone time seemed younger far than we) how we tossed all afternoon, blowzed with sun in the light of a sky-blue-watered cornfield, unavowed to white-dusty road and heat-hazed farm.

   • 2000, Arne Jarrick, Only human: studies in the history of the conceptions of man, page 181:

     Are these men, these customers of taverns, who stagger around bawling in our streets or tumble blowzed from our fine cafes, oblivious to their duties to those on whom they depend, and to those who depend on them?

• blowsy, blowzy