blowen
Appearance
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]blowen (plural blowens)
- (obsolete, vulgar) A prostitute; a courtesan.
- 1840, Regular Slangsman, The Flash Mirror, Or, Kiddy's Cabinet, page 12:
- Poll Strokem, an old blowen, well known about the streets of London, was continually crying; see her whenever you would, she was all snot and slobber, like a calf's head on a hot summer's day […]
- August 1831, Bryan O'Toole, “Barney Moore”, in Blackwood Magazine:
- Many a blowen of saloonic fame
Synonyms
[edit]References
[edit]- “blowen”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
[edit]Middle English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Inherited from Old English blāwan, from Proto-West Germanic *blāan, from Proto-Germanic *blēaną.
Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]blowen
- To blow (produce a current of air):
- To spread a communicable disease (by exhalation).
- To smelt; to extract metal from ore.
- To make a sound, especially flatulence.
- To insult or brag (talk coarsely)
- To proclaim; to broadly disseminate.
- (rare) To be blown around (by wind).
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of blowen (strong class 7)
infinitive | (to) blowen, blowe | ||
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present tense | past tense | ||
1st-person singular | blowe | blew | |
2nd-person singular | blowest | blewe, blew | |
3rd-person singular | bloweth | blew | |
subjunctive singular | blowe | blewe1 | |
imperative singular | — | ||
plural2 | blowen, blowe | blewen, blewe | |
imperative plural | bloweth, blowe | — | |
participles | blowynge, blowende | blowen, blowe, yblowen, yblowe |
1Replaced by the indicative in later Middle English.
2Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “blouen, v.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-14.
Etymology 2
[edit]Inherited from Old English blōwan, from Proto-West Germanic *blōan, from Proto-Germanic *blōaną.
Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]blowen
- To blossom; to flower.
- (figurative) To grow, to flourish.
Usage notes
[edit]This verb is occasionally weak, but usually remains strong, probably due to influence from Etymology 1.
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of blowen (strong class 7)
infinitive | (to) blowen, blowe | ||
---|---|---|---|
present tense | past tense | ||
1st-person singular | blowe | blew | |
2nd-person singular | blowest | blewe, blew | |
3rd-person singular | bloweth | blew | |
subjunctive singular | blowe | blewe1 | |
imperative singular | — | ||
plural2 | blowen, blowe | blewen, blewe | |
imperative plural | bloweth, blowe | — | |
participles | blowynge, blowende | blowen, blowe, yblowen, yblowe |
1Replaced by the indicative in later Middle English.
2Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- English: blow
References
[edit]- “blouen, v.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-12.
Old English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]blōwen
Participle
[edit]blōwen
- past participle of blōwan
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