Adjective: blowsey
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
| Comparative | blowsier |
| Superlative | blowsiest |
Perifrastic
Sample Sentences
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She is now a blowsey, garrulous, middle-aged widow, jolly to the point of asininity, and so consternation, frenzy, and a crisis are inevitable. [1948, James McKeen Cattell, School & Society, volume 68, page 456:]
Adjectives inflected like blowsey
snipey,
scaley,
smiley,
slicey,
slimey,
slatey,
shitey,
blowsey,
plaguey,
breezey,
schemey,
smudgey,
smidgey,
douchey,
greasey,
cabbagey,
chocolatey,
cliquey,
squiggley,
dog-whistley, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology