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blowies

blowies is the plural of blowie.

blowies is the plural of blowy.

Meaning of blowie

Noun

blowie (plural blowies)

  1. (slang) A blow job.
    • "I said," my friend says on the phone, "I can call the cops and have you arrested or you can give me a blowie."2008, Shane Lindemoen, Empire Dirt, Fallen Publishing, page 91
  2. (Australia, slang) A blowfly, Lucilia cuprina.
    • I woke just in time to hear the first blowie of the day buzzing around. You know the night's over when you hear the first blowie.1997, John Marsden, Burning for Revenge, page 22
  3. (Australia, slang) The common toadfish, Tetractenos hamiltoni.
    • There was always a mob fishing from the jetty, although nobody ever caught much — just trumpeters and gobblies and blowies, and sometimes the pretty little yellow-tail with their golden scales and blue spots.1983, T. A. G. Hungerford, Stories from Suburban Road, page 74

Meaning of blowy

Adjective

blowy (comparative blowier, superlative blowiest)

  1. Windy or breezy.
    • All my doors open! this blowy night! reminds me of the Lisbon earthquake; but my storm-cap has protected me.1789, John O’Keeffe, Modern Antiques; or, The Merry Mourners, Act II, Scene 3, in The Dramatic Works of John O’Keeffe, London, 1798, Volume I, p. 351
  2. Billowy, blowing or waving in the wind. (of fabric, hair, etc.)
    • […] I remember now. You had the sun behind you, filtering through your amazing blowy hair, red hair […]2012, Dawn French, chapter 16, in Oh Dear Silvia, Penguin
  3. Susceptible to drifting. (of soil)
    • And fall plowing except on blowy soils also will be good for the spring sown crops.1929, U.S. Department of Agriculture Radio Service, Office of Information, Farm Science Snapshots, 19 October, 1929

Questions about blowies

What is blowies the plural of?
Blowies is the plural of blowie.

Words near blowies in the dictionary

  1. blowhorn
  2. blowhorns
  3. Blowick
  4. blowie
  5. blowier
  6. blowies
  7. blowiest
  8. blowin'
  9. blowing
  10. blowing a cloud
  11. blowing a fuse

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Adapted from Wiktionary: blowies (page history and authors); blowie (page history and authors); blowy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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