blowse n.
a slatternly woman, a prostitute.
Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie (1878) 43: Out trudgeth Hew make shift, with hooke & with line: Whiles Gillet, his blouse is a milking thy cow, Sir Hew is a rigging thy gate or the plow. | ||
Misogonus in (1906) II iv: A mincing lass, a honeysweet blowse! | ||
Virgidemiarum (1599) Bk I 9: Nor list I sonnet of my Mistresse face, To paint some Blowesse with a borrowed grace. | ||
All Fooles IV i: I will not hear a word; out, out upon thee! Wed without my advice, my love, my knowledge, Ay, and a beggar, too, a trull, a blowse! | ||
Anatomy of Melancholy 3.3.4.2: I had rather marry a faire one, and put it to the hazard, then be troubled with a blowze. | ||
Whimzies II 30: His bonny Blouze, or dainty doxie, being commonly a collapsed Tinkers wife, or some high way commodity. | ||
Lady’s Trial III i: Wench is your trull, your blouze, your dowdie. | ||
Witts Recreations ‘Fancies & Fantasticks’ No. 106: Yet he’l be thought or seen; / So good as George-a-Green; / And calls his Blouze his Queen. | ||
Lady Alimony IV ii: Doth your Mistress take us, you nitty-napty Rascal, for her Bordella’s Blouses? | ||
Honoria and Mammon III i: Mammon is a Blouze, A deformed Gipsie. | ||
‘The Prentices’ Answer to the Whores’ Petition’ in Bagford Ballads (1878) II 510: We scorn such Pocky Jades, such dirty Blowses. | ||
Maronides (1678) 133: All the dainty, Lazie blouses. | ||
Empress of Morocco Act III: Sweet blouz you make us all look sadly, To see you still take on thus madly. | ||
Wits Paraphras’d 71: Such are thy Charms, did thou but send / When the three Blousses did content. | ||
in Collin’s Walk canto 4 182: One evening to my Fathers House, Came a Young Tawney tatter’d Blowse [...] And at her Back a Kid that cry’d. | ||
London Spy XV 351: Neither could the good Woman [...] avoid, being new Christen’d by some Drunken Godfather or other, the name of [...] Dame Saucy, Goody Blowze, Gammer Tattle, or the like. | ||
‘Robin & Nan’ in Merry Songs and Ballads (1897) II 129: Now, said he, my charming blowsy, / Let us love and banish fear. | ||
Hudibras Redivivus II:7 20: So the old Babylonian blouze, And her demure fanatic Spouse. | ||
Female Tatler (1992) (39) 92: Joan the blowze, nay ev’n the great red-haired wench in Cheapside, make horrid complaints against him. | ||
Poetical Entertainer I 39: As oft as the Adult’rous Blowze Could feign a Lye to cheat her Spouse. | ||
in Pills to Purge Melancholy I 5: Adieu to the Knight [...] that keeps a Blowz, And beats his spouse. [Ibid.] V 349: Sly Spouses with Blouses, grave Horners, in Corners. [Ibid.] 194: May the Drone of my Bag never hum, / If I fail to remember my Blowze. | ||
Lives of Most Notorious Highway-men, etc. (1926) 203: Blowes, a mistress, also a whore. | ||
View of London & Westminster (2nd part) 41: [in a list of prostitutes] Miss Blouze, a Vintner’s Daughter [Is Visited] By a Nobleman. | ||
Harlot’s Progress 56: Bess Lemmox served the Wine, the Blowse, / Star’d at the Pr—st, and knit her Brows. | ||
Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1985) 68: This Blouze had left her place in the country for a bastard. | ||
, , | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: A blowse, or blowsabella, a woman whose hair is dishevelled, and hanging about her face; a slattern. | |
He Would be a Soldier II ii: Has Doll Blouze been with the parish officers? | ||
Honest Fellow 49: But what’s very odd, the young blouze, / Each night puts the yard in her entry. | ||
Sporting Mag. June X 175/2: In the belle or the blowze – in the pert or the prim. | ||
Lex. Balatronicum. | ||
Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. | ||
Anecdotes of the Turf, the Chase etc. 183: Blowsey Suke, in the rear, was the bridesmaid to her friend betsey. | ||
in Flash Casket 97: [song title] Moll Blowse of Saffron Hill. | ||
Dict. Archaic and Provincial Words I 188/1: Blouse... a woman with hair or head-dress loose and disordered, or decorated with vulgar finery. | ||
Goethe: a New Pantomime in Poetical Works 2 (1878) 336: Tell-tale, Jillet, Vagrant, Fibber, / Blouze, Coquette, Slut, Gaptooth, Cow. | ||
Sydney Sl. Dict. (2 edn) 1: Blowsey - A word applied to a coarse wench, or rough woman. | ||
Tales of Mean Streets (1983) 60: Blowses in feathered bonnets bawled hilarious obscenity at the jiggers. |