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blousabella

blousabella is the alternative spelling of blowsabella.

Meaning of blowsabella

Noun

blowsabella (plural blowsabellas)

  1. (obsolete) A rural woman; a country wench.
    • 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!1864, Charles Kent, “Edmund Waller—The Court Poet”, in Footprints on the Road, page 211
  2. (broadly, obsolete) A hot-tempered, unjustifiably angry woman, usually stereotyped as a red-haired Irish maidservant.
  3. (broadly, obsolete) A disheveled woman; a slattern.
    • "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.1850, Marguerite Gardiner, Country Quarters, volume 1, page 145
  4. (broadly, obsolete) A promiscuous woman or prostitute.
    • 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...1923, Cicely Fox Smith, Sailor Town Days, page 137

Forms of blousabella

pluralblousabellas

Questions about blousabella

What is blousabella the alternative spelling of?
Blousabella is the alternative spelling of blowsabella.

Words near blousabella in the dictionary

  1. Blount's disease
  2. Blounts
  3. Blountstown
  4. Blountsville
  5. Blountville
  6. blousabella
  7. blousabellas
  8. blousalinda
  9. blousalindas
  10. blouse
  11. bloused

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