Fwd: blowzy: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

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From: Dictionary.com <doctor@dictionary.com>
Date: 2013/10/17
Subject: blowzy: Dictionary.com Word of the Day
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	Word of the Day for Thursday, October 17, 2013 blowzy \BLOU-zee\, adjective: 1. having a coarse, ruddy complexion. 2. disheveled in appearance; unkempt. I have seen scattered around the apartment photographs of a Gertrude Stein who wears her hair in a massive topknot, loose, blowzy, somewhat in disarray. -- Monique Truong, The Book of Salt, 2003 She restores her make-up there: she looks hot and blowzy. Her lipstick has bled into the soft skin round her mouth. Hairpins have sprung out. Her nose and eyelids shine. -- A.S. Byatt, "Baglady," Elements, 1998 The origin of blowzy is uncertain, though it was perhaps once a cant term. It entered English in the 1700s. Read the full entry | See synonyms | Comment on today's word | Suggest tomorrow's word Yesterday's word | Previous words | Help Words of the Day? How about words of timeless wisdom? Introducing our Quotes channel! "Life itself is a quotation." - Jorge Luis Borges Check out the Quote of the Day ›› How do I get a word into the dictionary? "I coined a new word. How do I get it into the dictionary?" This is, by far, the question lexicographers hear the most. People invent new words all the time, but which ones actually make it? When lexicographers decide what words to add to dictionaries, they try to imagine what words users actually want to... Read more ›› Dictionary.com Word of the Day You are subscribed to the Word of the Day as: hectorpinillos@gmail.com Subscriber since: June 03, 2013 Unsubscribe from the Word of the Day To subscribe to the Word of the Day by email, please send a blank message to: join-wordoftheday@lists.lexico.com ©2013 by Dictionary.com, LLC. 555 12th Street Suite 500 Oakland CA 94607 Subscriptions to the Word of the Day can also be managed online   Tell a friend about the Word of the Day!

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