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blos, bloss blowen, blon noun a woman; a frivolous girl; a sweetheart la18-. etymology: origin obscure; perhaps connected to Romany bloen ‘a close female companion who allows regular sexual intimacy but is not a fiancée or anything like it’; also attested by Perthshire and Argyleshire Tinkler-Gypsies; form blon collected by McCormick note:

Grose and Egan (1823) attest that it is originally Cant and define it as follows ‘the pretended wife of a bully or shop-lifter’.