blowsabella
18th-century Great Britain. From a character in John Gay's 1714 poem The Shepherd's Week. Noun
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18th-century Great Britain. From a character in John Gay's 1714 poem The Shepherd's Week. Noun
blowsabella (plural blowsabellas)
- (obsolete) A rural woman; a country wench.
- (obsolete, by extension) A hot-tempered, unjustifiably angry woman, usually stereotyped as a red-haired Irish maidservant.
- (obsolete, by extension) A disheveled woman; a slattern.
- (obsolete, by extension) A promiscuous woman or prostitute.
- (rural woman) See also Thesaurus:country bumpkin
- (angry woman) See also Thesaurus:shrew
- (disheveled woman) See also Thesaurus:untidy person
- (promiscuous woman) See also Thesaurus:promiscuous woman or Thesaurus:prostitute
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