Meaning & use
Blowed
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A nonstandard or dialectal past tense and past participle of "blow," especially in the exclamatory phrase "I'll be blowed" to express surprise.
See it in a sentence
"Well, I'll be blowed," he said, staring at the unexpected letter.
In the old sailor's telling, the storm blowed the ship clean off course.
A note on using this word
"Blowed" is considered nonstandard in formal English, where "blew" and "blown" are the accepted forms; it survives mainly in dialect speech and set expressions like "well, I'll be blowed."
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