blowne
blowne is the obsolete form of blown.
Meaning of blown
Adjective
blown (not comparable)
- Distended, swollen, or inflated.
- Cattle are said to be blown when gorged with green food which develops gas.
- Panting and out of breath.
- Formed by blowing.
- Under the influence of drugs, especially marijuana.
- Synonyms:
- blazed, reefed, spaced-out, baked, blitzed, chemically impaired, chopped, cut, drugged, drugged-out
- Stale; worthless.
- [T]wo or three horsemen, [...] appeared returning at full gallop, their horses much blown, and the men apparently in a disordered flight.1816, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter II, in Tales of My Landlord, […], volume II (Old Mortality), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for William Blackwood, […]...
- Synonyms:
- good-for-nothing, no good, valueless, bastardly, cacky, chaffy, cocking, crapalicious, cruddy, cullionly
- Covered with the eggs and larvae of flies; flyblown.
Questions about blowne
- What is blowne the obsolete form of?
- Blowne is the obsolete form of blown.
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