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High-scoring words in Scrabble

This week’s words
chutzpah
quixotry
blowzy
quincunx
whizbang

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PRONUNCIATION:

(BLOU-zee)

MEANING:

adjective:
1. Having a coarsely ruddy complexion.
2. Disheveled.

ETYMOLOGY:

From English dialect blowze (wench). Earliest documented use: around 1770.

USAGE:

“In her somewhat soiled apron and blue print dress, her face flushed and her hands dirty, she looked the honest, blowzy, noisy wench that she probably was.”
Leo Bruce; Case with No Conclusion; Chicago Review Press; 2014.

See more usage examples of blowzy in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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