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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X).
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Quotation dates: 1956
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BLEUPSY, adj. Of the face: flabby, heavy-looking and expressionless (Ork. 1975).Ork. 1956 C. M. Costie Benjie's Bodle 88:
His face is lang, an' kindo reed and bleupsy.
[From *bleup, poss. imit., + Sie, suff.]
