blown
adjUK /bləʊn/ · US /bloʊn/
Etymology From Middle English blawen, from Old English blāƿen, blāwen, past participle of Old English blāwan. Morphologically blow + -n.
9 senses
1
Distended, swollen, or inflated.
- Cattle are said to be blown when gorged with green food which develops gas.
2
Panting and out of breath.
3
Of glass Formed by blowing.
4
Under the influence of drugs, especially marijuana.
5
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:
6
Covered with the eggs and larvae of flies; flyblown.
7
Automotive, Transport, Vehicles Given a hot rod blower.
8
Having failed.
- a blown head gasket
- 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:
- Derived terms
- ale-blown, blown flap, blown glass, blown-in-the-bottle, blown-off, blown out, endblown, freeblown, full-blown, glassblown, handblown, inblown, mindblown, mouthblown, outblown, sideblown, unblown, windblown