floozie

English

Alternative forms

• floozy, floosy, floosie, floogy

Etymology

Corruption of flossy in the sense of showy.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈfluː.zi/

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• Rhymes: -uːzi

Noun

floozie (plural floozies)

1. A vulgar or sexually promiscuous woman; a hussy or slattern.
   • 1957, Jack Kerouac, chapter 13, in On the Road, Viking Press, OCLC 43419454, part 1:

     «Sure thing. You going with that little Mexican floozy?»

   • 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 418]:

     Now I was a forsaken codger snuffling disgracefully from a beautiful floozy's abuse.

2. A prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets.

Synonyms

• see Thesaurus:promiscuous woman

Translations

vulgar or sexually promiscuous woman

• Bulgarian: курва (bg) f (kurva)
• Czech: coura (cs) f, děvka (cs) f, běhna (cs), lehká děva f, šlapka (cs) f
• Dutch: slons (nl), deerne (nl), del (nl)

• German: Flittchen (de) n
• Portuguese: oferecida
• Swedish: slampa (sv) c, slinka (sv) c

prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets

• Bulgarian: улична проститутка f (ulična prostitutka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 流鶯

• Czech: pouliční děvka f, šlapka (cs) f

• Dutch: tippelaarster (nl), straatmadelief (nl)
• German: leichtes Mädchen n, Bordsteinschwalbe (de) f
• Russian: уличная (ru) (uličnaja) шлю́ха (ru) f (šljúxa)
• Swedish: gatuflicka c, fnask (sv) n, glädjeflicka (sv) c, sköka (sv) c