blowsier

Adjective

blowsy (comparative blowsier, superlative blowsiest)

1. Having a reddish, coarse complexion, especially with a pudgy face.
   • They put me in mind of a poor Girl, a Miss Peachy (a real, & in the end, a melancholy Story)—she was a fine young Woman; but thinking herself too ruddy & blowsy, it was her Custom to bleed herself (an Art she had learn’d on purpose) 3 or 4 times against the Rugby Races in order to appear more...1778, Samuel Crisp, The early journals and letters of Fanny Burney, volume III, published 1994, page 188
2. Slovenly or unkempt, in the manner of a beggar or slattern.
   • Her hair so untidy, so blowsy!1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter 8, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC
3. Unrefined, countrified.
   • He longed for the warmth and the smells of his favourite haunts—Gilpin's with oysters frizzling in a dozen pans, and noble odours stealing from the tap-room, the Green Man with its tripe-suppers, Wanless's Coffee House, noted for its cuts of beef and its white puddings. He would give much to be in...1921, John Buchan, chapter 11, in The Path of the King, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC