blow
verb
- explode or burst
- suck, be bad
- perform fellatio upon
- to push air
- cause motion by air current
- make an error
- create, shape by blowing air
- sound, like a trumpet
- like the wind
- waste, consume, use
noun
- strong stimulant used as a recreational drug
- directed physical attack
- cause motion by air current
- forceful act, effect, or strike; literally or figuratively
- explode
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /bləʊ/ / /blaː/ / /bloʊ/
adj
Etymology: From Middle English blo, bloo, from Old English blāw (“blue”), from Proto-Germanic *blēwaz (“blue, dark blue, grey, black”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlēw- (“yellow, blond, grey”). Cognate with Latin flavus (“yellow”). Doublet of blue.
- Blue.
intj
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- Proto-Indo-European *-eh₁- Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁-der. Proto-Germanic *blēaną Proto-West Germanic *blāan Old English blāwan Middle English blowen English blow From Middle English blowen, from Old English blāwan (“to blow, breathe, inflate, sound”), from Proto-West Germanic *blāan, from Proto-Germanic *blēaną (“to blow”) (compare German blähen), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- (“to swell, blow up”) (compare Latin flō (“to blow”) and Old Armenian բեղուն (bełun, “fertile”)).
- Used to express displeasure or frustration.
“Blow the expense!”
“[H]e suddenly flung down his brush on the floor, said 'Bother!' and 'Oh blow!' and also 'Hang spring-cleaning!' and bolted out of the house without even waiting to put on his coat.”
name
- A surname.
noun
Etymology: From Middle English blowen, from Old English blōwan, from Proto-Germanic *blōaną (compare Dutch bloeien, German blühen), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (compare Latin florēre (“to bloom”)).
- A state of flowering; a bloom.
“roses in full blow”
“[F]lowers that in perennial blow / Round the moist marge of Persian fountains cling; […]”
- A display or mass of flowers; a yield.
“[H]e believed he could shew me such a blow of tulips as was not to be matched in the whole country.”
“Passing the apple-tree blows of white and pink in the orchards; / Carrying a corpse to where it shall rest in the grave, / Night and day journeys a coffin.”
- A display of anything bright or brilliant.
verb
Etymology: From Middle English blowen, from Old English blōwan, from Proto-Germanic *blōaną (compare Dutch bloeien, German blühen), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (compare Latin florēre (“to bloom”)).
- To blossom; to cause to bloom or blossom.
“You ſeeme to me as Diane in her Orbe, / As chaſte as is the budde ere it be blowne:”
“How blows the citron grove.”