blouzabella n.
a slattern.
![]() | Massaniello dramatis personae: Pimponio A Villain and Parasite, but Witty and Comical, Gentleman-Usher to Blowzabella. | |
![]() | Writings (1704) 129: They strip of their Buff from their Hides and their Tallows, / And Leap into Bed to their Dear Blouzabella’s. | ‘Battel without Bloodshed’ in|
![]() | Compleat and Humorous Account of Remarkable Clubs (1756) 108: Dancers could scarce mind their Steps [...] or a Libertine shake his Heels with his charming Blowzabella. | |
![]() | in Pills to Purge Melancholy I 194: Blowsabella my bouncing Doxie. | |
![]() | Grobianus 26: Carve thereon your Blouzabella’s Name. | |
![]() | London Mag. Feb. 53/2: She a loud blouzabella, he a finical, fluttering fop. | |
, , | ![]() | 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. |
![]() | Wild Oats (1792) 23: My sister Blowsabella born as high and noble as the Attorney. | |
![]() | Morn. Chron. (London) 9 Aug. 2/4: The Peer and his Countess, the rustic and the Blouzabella were equally moved to pleasure. | |
![]() | Lex. Balatronicum. | |
![]() | Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
![]() | Tait's Edinburgh Mag. 6 164/1: It is said of me [...] that my taste in beauty tends somewhat tcwards the Blowzabella order. | |
![]() | Worcs. Chron. 14 Dec. 6/2: The Blouzabellas of the highly moral penny cyclopedias of marital affairs only stop short when the last rag of decency is about to drop off. | |
![]() | Sportsman 25 June 2/1: Notes on News [...] ‘[T]he darkly, deeply, beautifully blue’ organ of rustic innocence and Blowzabel loveliness. | |
![]() | London Soc. June 503/2: The girls were all of the Blowzabella kind, dairy-maidish to a degree. | |
![]() | Derbyshire Courier 12 Feb. 6/1: Every woman thinks her personality the best. Blouzabella would hardly change faces with Mrs Langtry. |