blowhole n.
1. (US) the mouth.
![]() | Swell’s Night Guide 77: This was followed by a munzer; for Bet’s only answer, was a prop in the jowl; she tapped his blow-hole and he spouted red. | |
![]() | Tomboy (1952) 111: You shut your blowhole. |
2. (Aus.) a talkative person.
![]() | Digger Dialects 12: blow-hole — A garrulous person. | |
![]() | I Travelled a Lonely Land (1957) 230/2: blow hole – an overtalkative person. | |
![]() | (con. 1940s) Dark Sea Running 33: He put up with that other blow-hole, Army Lieutenant Drupp. |
3. (US) the anus.
![]() | ‘Imaginary Diseases’ in AS XXII:4 Apr. 305/1: conjunctivitis of the blowhole. This one is in very common use and has several variants, among them Acidosis of the Blowhole, etc., etc. It is invariably used in a derogatory sense in reference to any person who complains of being sick. Any suspected malingering or hypochondria is instantly diagnosed as ‘a bad case of conjunctivitis of the blowhole.’. | |
![]() | (con. 1940s) Do Not Go Gentle (1962) 340: It makes the ole blow hole pucker up. | |
![]() | Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. 89: go kiss a cocky’s blowhole A rude way of telling someone to get lost. |