| Front | blousy or blowsy or blowzy /BLOU-zee/ |
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| Back | adjective 1. Having a coarsely ruddy complexion. 2. Disheveled. [From English dialect blowze (wench). Earliest documented use: around 1770.] "She appears transformed from the dowdy, blousy woman with big hair." Hillary in the Oval Office; Irish Independent (Dublin); Mar 25, 2006. |
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