blowzy

[Jonathan Lighter]

Come to think of it, in the early '70s I heard an elderly New York lady
refer to a "blowzy" female as a "blowzer."

The only time I heard it.

JL

On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 6:40 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
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> > I'd guess "lousy".  Certainly not "mousy", or "Suzy".
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> That's my guess, too. But,
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> Youneverknow.
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> I've been familiar with the cliche (meme?), "blowzy blonde,"
> practically from birth. I've seen it in print millions of tomes. But,
> no one has yet spoken the "blowzy" part in my hearing.
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