Blowie vs Bower - What's the difference?
blowie | bower |
(sex, slang) A blow job.
* 2008 , Shane Lindemoen, Empire Dirt , Fallen Publishing, page 91:
* 2009 , , Crystal ,
* 2010 , Zoe Foster, Playing the Field , Round 23: The Enchantress vs The Press,
(Australia, slang) A blowfly, .
* 1997 , , Burning for Revenge ,
* 2007 , Gayle Kennedy, Me, Antman & Fleabag ,
* 2010 , Peter Conrad, The Monthly , April 2010, Issue 55, The Monthly Ptd Ltd, page 50:
(Australia, slang) The common toadfish, .
* 1983 , , Stories from Suburban Road ,
* 2000 , Wendy Jenkins, Gunna Burn ,
* 2007 , , Ocean Road ,
A bedroom or private apartments, especially for a woman in a medieval castle.
* Gascoigne
(literary) A dwelling; a picturesque country cottage, especially one that is used as a retreat.
A shady, leafy shelter or recess in a garden or woods.
* 1599 ,
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, chapter=1 (ornithology) A large structure made of grass and bright objects, used by the bower bird during courtship displays.
(nautical) A type of ship's anchor, carried at the bow.
One who bows or bends.
A muscle that bends a limb, especially the arm.
* Spenser
As a noun blowie
is (sex|slang) a blow job.As a proper noun bower is
.blowie
English
Noun
(en noun)- "I said," my friend says on the phone, "I can call the cops and have you arrested or you can give me a blowie ."
page 312,
- ‘I didn?t mind being groped by him,’ Crystal replied. ‘He was cute. In fact I?m looking forward to later; don?t I have to pretend to give him a blowie ?’
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- ‘A brothel. Anyway, they got kicked out ?cos one of them – not Josh – took photos on his mobile of some bird giving him a blowie , and she flipped out.’
page 22,
- I woke just in time to hear the first blowie' of the day buzzing around. You know the night's over when you hear the first ' blowie .
page 80,
- The blowie was still hoverin around making random swoops on Boris who by now was well beyond caring.
- Mouths are clamped shut to keep out blowies , with a slit at the corner prised open in case speech - preferably laconic - is necessary; miseries are borne with a stoical shrug.
page 74,
- There was always a mob fishing from the jetty, although nobody ever caught much — just trumpeters and gobblies and blowies , and sometimes the pretty little yellow-tail with their golden scales and blue spots.
page 152,
- Nat was puffing and heaving like a blowie on a jetty.
page 102,
- Cervantes was where I caught my first fish, a blowie , and copped my first bad sunburn — much to my father?s dismay, because my mother had stressed the importance of sun protection and how could he have gotten me so burnt?
bower
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ).Noun
(en noun)- Give me my lute in bed now as I lie, / And lock the doors of mine unlucky bower .
- (Shenstone)
- say that thou overheard'st us,
- And bid her steal into the pleached bower ,
- Where honey-suckles, ripen'd by the sun,
- Forbid the sun to enter;
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Synonyms
*Etymology 2
From (etyl) boueer, from (etyl) .Etymology 3
From (etyl) Bauer.Derived terms
* best bower * left bower * right bowerEtymology 4
From the bow of a shipNoun
(en noun)- His rawbone arms, whose mighty brawned bowers / Were wont to rive steel plates and helmets hew.