blowen

noun

noun

Obsolete, Vulgar A prostitute; a courtesan.

Poll Strokem, an old blowen, well known about the streets of London, was continually crying; see her whenever you would, she was all snot and slobber, like a calf's head on a hot summer's day […]1840, Regular Slangsman, The Flash Mirror, Or, Kiddy's Cabinet, page 12:
Many a blowen of saloonic fameAugust 1831, Bryan O'Toole, “Barney Moore”, in Blackwood Magazine:

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