blow-dry

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Transcription

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- UK Pronunciation
- UK IPA
- [bloh drahy]
- /bloʊ draɪ/
- /bləʊ draɪ/

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- [bloh drahy]
- /bloʊ draɪ/

Definitions of blow-dry word

verb blow-dry If you blow-dry your hair, you dry it with a hairdryer, often to give it a particular style. 3
verb blow-dry Blow-dry is also a noun. 3
verb blow-dry to style (hair) while drying it with a handheld hairdryer 3
noun blow-dry this method of styling the hair 3
verb transitive blow-dry to dry (wet hair) with an electric device (blow-dryer) that sends out a stream of heated air 3
noun blow-dry the act of blow-drying the hair 3

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Origin of blow-dry

First appearance:

before 1965

One of the 2% newest English words

First recorded in 1965-70; back formation from blow-dryer

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Parts of speech for Blow-dry

noun

adjective

verb

adverb

pronoun

preposition

conjunction

determiner

exclamation

Full grammatical hierarchy of Blow-dry

blow-dry popularity

A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 50% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.

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