Brewer's: Blowzy

Coarse, red-faced, bloated; applied to women. The word is allied to blush, blaze, etc. (Dutch, bloozen and blaazen; Danish, blusser, to blaze.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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