Meaning of blow upon | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To defame, discredit; make someone the subject of a scandal.
2. To inform against.
   dated, informal
3. To take the bloom or freshness off something.

Examples

“And thenne syre Gawayne made many men to blowe vpon syr launcelot / And all at ones they called hym fals recreaunt knyght. "And then Sir Gawaine made many men to blow upon Sir Launcelot; and all at once they called him false recreant knight."”

“'I'm afraid,' said the Jew, 'that he may say something which will get us into trouble.' 'That's very likely,' returned Sikes with a malicious grin. 'You're blowed upon, Fagin.'”

“How far the very custom of hearing anything spouted withers and blows upon a fine passage, may be seen in those speeches from [Shakespeare's] Henry V. which are current in the mouths of schoolboys.”

“a lady's maid whose character had been blown upon”

“If it wos so, which I still don't say it is (for I will not prewaricate to you, sir), let that there boy keep his father's place, and take care of his mother; don't blow upon that boy's father — do not do it, sir — and let that father go into the line of the reg'lar diggin', and make amends for what he would have undug […]”

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