disreputable woman

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• trollop —  Disreputable woman. Badly dressed person …   A concise dictionary of English slang

• Jane Holland — (born November 1966 in Barkingside, Essex) is an award winning English poet, performer and novelist whose poems have been widely published in magazines and broadcast on the radio. The daughter of the romantic novelist Sheila Ann Mary Coates… …   Wikipedia

• quean — noun Etymology: Middle English quene, from Old English cwene; akin to Old English cwēn woman, queen Date: before 12th century 1. a disreputable woman; specifically prostitute 2. chiefly Scottish woman; especially one that is young or unmarried …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• baggage — /bag ij/, n. 1. trunks, suitcases, etc., used in traveling; luggage. 2. the portable equipment of an army. 3. things that encumber one s freedom, progress, development, or adaptability; impediments: intellectual baggage that keeps one from… …   Universalium

• faggot — n 1. British an unattractive or disreputable woman. This now outdated term, some three hundred years old, is still heard in the phrase old faggot . 2. American a homosexual man. It is not certain whether this term is an embel lished version of… …   Contemporary slang

• jade — jade1 [jād] n. [Fr < Sp (piedra de) ijada, (stone of) the side, loin < VL * iliata < L ilia, pl. of ileum (see ILEUM): from the notion that it cured pains in the side] 1. any of various hard greenish gems used in jewelry and artistic… …   English World dictionary

• trollop — noun Etymology: perhaps irregular from trull Date: 1621 a vulgar or disreputable woman; especially one who engages in sex promiscuously or for money …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• jade — I. noun Etymology: Middle English Date: 14th century 1. a broken down, vicious, or worthless horse 2. a. a disreputable woman b. a flirtatious girl II. verb (jaded; jading) Date: 1524 …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• The House of Mirth — Infobox Book name = The House of Mirth title orig = translator = image caption = The House of Mirth , Penguin Books edition 1993 author = Edith Wharton cover artist = country = United States language = English series = genre = Novel publisher =… …   Wikipedia

• The Cocoanuts (musical) — Infobox Musical name = The Cocoanuts subtitle = caption = Sheet music cover for the song A Little Bungalow music = Irving Berlin lyrics = Irving Berlin book = George S. Kaufman Morrie Ryskind (additional text) basis = productions = 1925 Broadway… …   Wikipedia

• streel — noun /striːl/ a disreputable woman, a slut , 1922: Cissy came up along the strand with the two twins and their ball with her hat anyhow on her to one side after her run and she did look a streel tugging the two kids along with the flimsy blouse… …   Wiktionary