| 词组 | blow |
| 释义 | blow Blow belongs to a class of verbs some of whose members have regular inflected forms and some irregular. The usual inflected forms of blow are irregular: blew and blown. The regular variant of these, blowed, says Phythian 1979, is allowed only in the expression "I'll be blowed." The OED also shows blowed only in that sense. Lamberts 1972 notes, however, that the regular forms are common in nonstandard English. The Dictionary of American Regional English narrows this observation, finding blowed to be chiefly Southern and South Midland with some scattered use in Northern areas. The DARE additionally notes that blowed occurs especially frequently among less educated male speakers. Blowed does not seem to have had much literary use. Shakespeare puts it into the mouth of his Irish captain Macmorris in Henry V: I would have blowed up the town Defoe gave it to Robinson Crusoe: • May 16. It had blowed hard in the night Blowed was apparently in the dialect of William Cob-bett. In his 1819 Grammar he has this passage: • ... as, the tree, which stood close beside the barn, is blowed down. In this last instance, we are not only informed that a tree is blowed down, but the sentence also informs us what particular tree it is. Our American citations of recent vintage are all from speech and fall within the dialect areas described by the dare. |
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