subs. (old).—1. A girl; contemptuous, in opposition to JOMER (q.v.); see Grose (1785): see quot. 1696.
c. 1696. B. E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew, s.v. BLOWER, c. a Mistress, also a Whore.
2. (American and colonial).—A good talker; a boaster; a ‘gas-bag’: cf. BLOW, verb, sense 1.
1863. ‘MANHATTAN,’ in Evening Standard, 10 Dec. General Grant … is not one of the BLOWER generals.
1864. Spectator, 22 Oct., 1202, col. 1. Notorious among our bar and the public as a BLOWER.
1871. DE VERE, Americanisms, 584. ‘You need not BLOW so, my friend. I don’t believe a word of what you say.’ Hence also the noun BLOWER, a braggart, with special reference to his success in imitating Baron Munchausen.
3. A pipe: cf. BLOW A CLOUD.
