An archaic or dialectal past participle of 'blow,' meaning blown or swollen; also an archaic variant of 'blown.'
From Old English 'blāwan' (to blow). Archaic and dialectal variants retained this form in some regions while standard English shifted to 'blown.'
Words like 'blowen' are frozen in time in certain dialects and historical texts—they show how English speakers once had multiple ways to say 'blown,' and some communities kept the old version while the standard language moved on.
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