blown en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /bloʊn/ (US)
- /blaːn/ (Northumbria)
- (US) audio
- /bləʊn/ (UK)
Etymology
From Middle English blawen, from Old English blāƿen, blāwen, past participle of Old English blāwan. Morphologically blow + -n.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Distended, swollen, or inflated.
Cattle are said to be blown when gorged with green food which develops gas.
- (not-comparable) Panting and out of breath.
- (not-comparable, of glass) Formed by blowing.
- (not-comparable) Under the influence of drugs, especially marijuana.
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(not-comparable, obsolete) Stale; worthless.
[T]wo or three horsemen, [...] appeared returning at full gallop, their horses much blown, and the men apparently in a disordered flight.
1816, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter II, in Tales of My Landlord, […], volume II (Old Mortality), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for William Blackwood, […]; London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 33:
- (not-comparable) Covered with the eggs and larvae of flies; flyblown.
- (not-comparable) Given a hot rod blower.
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(not-comparable) Having failed.
Attempts by Waterloo signalmen to clear the points by power operation eventually exhausted point motor batteries, which are fed by trickle chargers, and a blown fuse accentuated the problem; thus, even when the points had been cleared of ice, no power was available to operate them until the batteries were sufficiently recharged.
1962 March, “The New Year Freeze-up on British Railways”, in Modern Railways, page 159:a blown head gasket
- (informal, not-comparable) Of a vein, ruptured or punctured as a result of an injection or cannula, causing fluid (blood, medication, or saline) to leak into the surrounding tissue.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| blowne | alternative | lexicographic |
Coordinates
Deriveds
endblown · sideblown · full-blown · blown out · freeblown · ale-blown · mouthblown · inblown · handblown · blown flap · mindblown · blown glass · glassblown · blown-in-the-bottle · unblown · blown-off · windblown · outblown
Synonyms
cocking · blown · drecky · invaluable · toasted · tumid · high · mouldy · drugged-out · junky · not worth a nickel · reefed · off one's box · ineffectual · good-for-nothing · hopped up · shitstained · cullionly · shitty-ass · draffish · scabbed · trolleyed · wasted · zooted · not worth a plug nickel · zorched · cacky · bastardly · blazed · crapalicious · suckworthy · not worth a damn · sorry-ass · not worth a dime · duffing · chopped · not worth a cent · good-for-naught · worth nothing · unvaluable · not worth a Continental · supercharged · two-bit · spaced-out · spaced-out · puffed · garbagey · lit · valueless · pissass · high as a kite · not worth a cress · unappreciated · gassed · scummy · shand · munted · wutless · mucid · whacked · hepped up · draffy · tenth-rate · not worth a farthing · cut · chemically impaired · bulled · no good · baked · punk · shit · toshy · not worth hell room · shitey · triobolar · floccinaucinihilipilificatious · out of one's box · for the birds · nought · chaffy · blitzed · fucking · goodless · not worth a brass farthing · not worth a whistle · rubbishly · rubbishy · jabberwocky · valueless · nonvaluable · screwy · geeked · tripy · dreckish · naughty · vain · not worth salt · sixpenny · no good / no-good · drugged · up there · good-for-nothing · lifted · worthless · fuckered up · no-account · strawlike · blown · monged · trinkety · cruddy · putid · stoned · reefed · fried · of no value · blazed · not worth a penny · not worth a curse
Translations (7)
bg издухан ((glass) formed by blowing) · sq fryrë (distended, swollen or inflated) · bg издут (distended, swollen or inflated) · de aufgebläht (distended, swollen or inflated) · bg задъхан (panting and out of breath) · bg подут (distended, swollen or inflated) · sq aj (distended, swollen or inflated)