Meaning of blowsabella | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A rural woman; a country wench.
   obsolete
2. A hot-tempered, unjustifiably angry woman, usually stereotyped as a red-haired Irish maidservant.
   broadly, obsolete
3. A disheveled woman; a slattern.
   broadly, obsolete
4. A promiscuous woman or prostitute.
   broadly, obsolete

Examples

“So ridiculous was Waller's second wife in the eyes of Johnson, even with Tetty, his own⟳ red-faced Blowsabella, vividly surviving in his remembrance!”

“Before his beard was grey, he took to wife the offspring of one of his own⟳ tenants; a buxom Blousalinda, who outlived all his brutality, and buried him at last⟳, more decently than he deserved; though she professed herself heart-broken before the honeymoon had waned.”

“This was no Blowsabella, this was no buxom, forward⟳, romping girl, to meet⟳ with a reward⟳ for her folly.”

“"I declare⟳ I have⟳ not been able to get⟳ a single glance⟳ in the glass, and I am sure I shall look⟳ a regular Blouzabella," remarked a sparkling brunette.”

“It is the way of the world. It is just as well Polly is faithless. If it were otherwise, she would very likely break⟳ her heart for him.¶ And deep down in his muddled mind⟳ he knows that stately ship as the symbol of his first love⟳, a love⟳ more cruel in her way than this poor Blowsabella of Paradise Street, a love⟳ whose gifts are hardship, and cold, and peril in great waters—yet to whom, while breath is in his body, he will continually return⟳.”

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