different between blower vs blowen

English

Etymology

From Middle English blower, from Old English bl?were; equivalent to blow +? -er.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -???(r)

Noun

blower (plural blowers)

1. A person who blows.
2. Any device that blows.
3. (slang, chiefly Britain, usually preceded by the) Telephone.

   Get on the blower and call headquarters right away!

   1. (slang, Britain, historical) A telephone service providing betting odds and commentary, relayed to customers in a bookmaker's shop via loudspeaker.
4. A ducted fan, usually part of a heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning system.
5. (dated) A braggart, or loud talker.
6. The whale; so called by seamen, from its habit of spouting up a column of water.
7. A small fish of the Atlantic coast, Sphoeroides maculatus; the puffer.

Translations

Anagrams

• Bowler, Wrobel, bowler, worble

Indonesian

Etymology

From English blower.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?blow?r]
• Hyphenation: blo?wêr

Noun

blower (plural blower-blower, first-person possessive blowerku, second-person possessive blowermu, third-person possessive blowernya)

1. blower: a ducted fan, usually part of a heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning system.

Further reading

• “blower” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Middle English

Alternative forms

• blawer, blauere, blowere

Etymology

From Old English bl?were.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bl?u??r(?)/
• (Northern ME) IPA^(key): /?bl?u??r(?)/

Noun

blower (plural blowers)

1. A player of a wind instrument.
2. (rare) One who blows a bellows.
3. (rare) A tool or instrument used by blowing.
4. (rare) A person who converses in a vain or crude way.

Descendants

• English: blower
• Scots: blawer

References

• “blouere, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-14.

English

Noun

blowen (plural blowens)

1. (obsolete, vulgar) A prostitute; a courtesan.
   • 1840, Regular Slangsman, The Flash Mirror, Or, Kiddy's Cabinet (page 12)

     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 […]

Synonyms

• blowess

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English bl?wan, from Proto-Germanic *bl?an?.

Alternative forms

• blawen, blowyn, bloawen, blowe, blow, blouen

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bl?u??n/
• (Northern ME) IPA^(key): /?bl?u?(?n)/

Verb

blowen

2. To blow; to produce a current of air:
   1. To blow as to eliminate or remove; to blow away or blow off.
   2. To breathe out; to emit air out of the mouth while breathing.
   3. To blow upon a musical instrument as to produce a sound.
   4. To inhale; to breathe in (something).
   5. To blow upon a fire to intensify it; to intensify.
   6. To blow up; to blow as to cause the inflation of something.
   7. To gasp, to struggle to breath.
3. To introduce a disease or illness by breathing.
4. To perform the smelting of metal.
5. To make a sound, especially flatulence.
6. To talk crudely and proudly; to insult.
7. To announce, to proclaim, to spread news.
8. (rare) To be shifted around by the wind.

Conjugation

Derived terms

• blower
• blowyng

Descendants

• English: blow
  • Northumbrian: blaa
• Scots: blaw

References

• “blouen, v.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-14.

Etymology 2

From Old English bl?wan, from Proto-Germanic *bl?an?.

Alternative forms

• blowe

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bl?u??n/

Verb

blowen

2. To blossom; to flower.

3. (figuratively) To grow, to flourish.

Conjugation

Usage notes

This verb is occasionally weak, but usually remains strong, probably due to influence from Etymology 1.

Derived terms

• blowyng

Descendants

• English: blow

References

• “blouen, v.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-12.