词汇 | blowsy |
释义 | blowsy adjective (alsoblowzy)uk /ˈblaʊ.zi/ us /ˈblaʊ.zi/ A blowsy woman is rather fat and looks untidy, often with badly fitting clothes.(女人)肥胖且邋遢的 Not attractive to look at back end be no oil paintingidiom be not much to look atidiom bleakly bleakness gracelessly have a face like the back end of a busidiom hideous hideousness homeliness putridly reptilian scrappily scrappy stolid unpretty unshapely unsightly vulgarity vulgarly After racking his imagination, it occurred to him to bribe the blowsy waiting-maid with gold. By this time Mary had dried her tears, and when they reached the station at Warren, she removed her veil, disclosing to view a face, which instead of being "rough and blowsy" was smooth and fair almost as marble. Edward Henry bought an aster from a fine bold, red-cheeked, blowsy, dirty wench with a baby in her arms, and left some change for the baby. She is blowsy and fat, has far too much color, and carries too much flesh in spite of the rough way she uses herself. These pert and blowsy schoolgirls, with hideous voices, and arrogant curls, or crimped lion-manes of aggressive hair! Examples of blowsyblowsy In her early film work she specialized in blowsy blondes and secretaries, but her dramatic range began to emerge by the late 1960s. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Its natural sweetness means that in hot climates it becomes blowsy, with not enough acidity to balance the huge amounts of sugar. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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