blotto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblɒtəʊ/
ipa: /ˈblɑtoʊ/
ipa: /-ɾoʊ/
rhymes: -ɒtəʊ
Forms: form: blottos
form: blottoes
Etymology: From blot + -o. The verb sense “to be annihilated or destroyed” may be related to blot out.
Senses: examples: text: Remember, Blanche DuBois was a blotto and her trip to New Orleans didn't get her anywhere. Nuff said.
ref: 1979, Margaret Oberman, Doug Steckler, I Could Have Been a Contender: Or, The Other Book of Lists, New York, N.Y.: Avon, →ISBN, page 102:
text: His [Joe Jonsson's] drawings and rollicking humor about burglars, cardsharps, turf punters, jockeys and "blottos" (drunks) were a continuation in theme of the work of the early Bulletin artists Alf Vincent and Ambrose Dyson.
ref: 1983, Maurice Horn, editor, The World Encyclopedia of Cartoons, volumes 3 (Gia–Mau), New York, N.Y.: Chelsea House Publishers, →ISBN, page 326, column 1:
text: These borderlines are outnumbered more than five to one by the "blottos," drivers with BACs [blood alcohol concentrations] of 0.20 and higher. Put this 0.08 idea to the commonsense test: We're going to improve highway safety with a program aimed at a few "borderlines," while five times as many "blottos" continue their boozy ways? It'll never work.
ref: 1999, Car and Driver, volume 45, New York, N.Y.: Hachette Magazines, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 26:
text: Behind the lighted displays of bottles, the smudged wall mirror reflected hazy red pool table lights and the words Dino's: Getting Vegas Drunk Since 1962 in large white letters on a back wall. His old man had groused when they had first painted that sign. "Makes the place sound like a bunch of blottos."
ref: 2013, Colleen Collins, chapter 2, in Sleepless in Las Vegas (Harlequin Super Romance), Don Mills, Ont.: Harlequin Enterprises, →ISBN, page 23:
glosses: A person who is (very) drunk or intoxicated.
examples: text: The authors' most penetrating work seems to me, their contribution along the lines of the interview with the child, the use of sketches, blottoes, etc. "Draw a picture of this house. Who lives there? Show where the different members sleep" […]
ref: 1932, Public Health Reviews, Ann Arbor, Mich.: Division of Hygiene and Public Health, University of Michigan, →OCLC:
text: The pictures on these cards which I am going to show you are such ink-blot pictures. They do not really represent anything. They are accidental blottos. All you have to do is to look at them one by one and tell me what they might be, what they could represent for you.
ref: 1942, Bruno Klopfer, Douglas McGlashan Kelley, “Appendix to Part Three”, in The Rorschach Technique: A Manual for a Projective Method of Personality Diagnosis, Yonkers-on-Hudson, N.Y.: World Book Company, →OCLC, page 292:
text: The ink splattered blottoes on the wall. The door closed precipitately. Screaming, "Told those monkeys to stay out unless I said come in!" The door opened and the jet brunette with the perfect profile minced in wearing a look of critical suffering.
ref: 1946, Theodora Du Bois, Death Sails in a High Wind, London: T[homas] V[olney] Boardman & Co., →OCLC, page 134:
text: One can object to a few of the crafts included—paper punch pictures, blottos and metal foil sculpture—because they are more likely to lead to "tricks" than to art.
ref: 1955, Craft Horizons, volume 15, New York, N.Y.: American Craft Council, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 49:
text: She feels that whatever they absorb of the basic fundamentals of art will be valuable in later life. Even a knowledge of balanced colors may be a help later in decorating a home. She starts them simply with ordinary "blottos." "Then they learn perspective, and the various techniques. I try to take them through as many as possible; water color, crayons, charcoal, tempera, and india ink, casein—everything but oil."
ref: 1963, Themis of Zeta Tau Alpha, volume 62, number 1, Menasha, Wis.: Zeta Tau Alpha, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 19, column 3:
text: Under the topic of Color, creative writing students will create blottos, using the primary colors; will listen for "color" in a familiar song and then write their own words; and, with the help of resource people from Mesabi Community College, will attempt to show color through facial expression […]
ref: 1974, Minnesota Elementary School Principal, St. Paul, Minn.: Minnesota Elementary School Principals' Association, →OCLC, page 132, column 1:
topics: art
arts
glosses: An artwork created using blots of ink or paint.
Related terms: sense: artwork
word: inkblot