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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