blow upon

Verb

blow upon (third-person singular simple present blows upon, present participle blowing upon, simple past blew upon, past participle blown upon)

1. To defame, discredit; make someone the subject of a scandal.
   • And thenne syre Gawayne made many men to blowe vpon syr launcelot / And all at ones they called hym fals recreaunt knyght.
     "And then Sir Gawaine made many men to blow upon Sir Launcelot; and all at once they called him false recreant knight."1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur Book XX, Chapter xij, leaf 409r
   • 'I'm afraid,' said the Jew, 'that he may say something which will get us into trouble.'
     'That's very likely,' returned Sikes with a malicious grin. 'You're blowed upon, Fagin.'1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], “chapter 13”, in Oliver Twist; […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC
2. (dated, informal) To inform against.
   • How far the very custom of hearing anything spouted withers and blows upon a fine passage, may be seen in those speeches from [Shakespeare's] Henry V. which are current in the mouths of schoolboys.1811, Charles Lamb, On the Tragedies of Shakespeare Considered with Reference to their Fitness for Stage Representation
   • a lady's maid whose character had been blown upon1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter III, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and...
3. To take the bloom or freshness off something.