blowzy

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: blowz=y

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.

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-fed

ROGET THESAURUS

blowzy

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.