blowsabella

== English == === Alternative forms === blousabella, blousalinda, blouzabella, blouzalinda, blowsalinda, blowzabella, blowzelinda === Etymology === 18th-century Great Britain. From a character in John Gay's 1714 poem The Shepherd's Week. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “I presume there is a connection with blowsy?”) === Noun === blowsabella (plural blowsabellas) (obsolete) A rural woman; a country wench. (obsolete, by extension) A hot-tempered, unjustifiably angry woman, usually stereotyped as a red-haired Irish maidservant. (obsolete, by extension) A disheveled woman; a slattern. (obsolete, by extension) A promiscuous woman or prostitute. ==== Synonyms ==== (rural woman): See also Thesaurus:country bumpkin (angry woman): See also Thesaurus:shrew (disheveled woman): See also Thesaurus:untidy person (promiscuous woman): See also Thesaurus:promiscuous woman or Thesaurus:prostitute