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floozie en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈfluː.zi/ (UK, US)

Etymology

Corruption of flossy in the sense of showy.

Meanings

1. A vulgar or sexually promiscuous woman; a hussy or slattern.
   • Now I was a forsaken codger snuffling disgracefully from a beautiful floozy's abuse. 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 418:
   • A bunch of ugly-looking gangsters had taken the joint over for a big party, and they were all wobbling around the floor with their floozies, so drunk they could hardly stand. 1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “If You Can’t Make Money”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 3 (1928–1935: The Big Apple), page 183:
   • [T]he lead singer found his girlfriend bumping uglies in the dark with the roadie. But then said singer was with a blonde floozie himself—see what being on an L.A. trash-band bill can do to ya? 1984 September 27, Serena, “L.A. Dee Da: On The Streets”, in L.A. Weekly, Los Angeles, page 46:
   • «Sure thing. You going with that little Mexican floozy?» 1957 September 5, Jack Kerouac, chapter 13, in On the Road, New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →OCLC, part 1:
2. A prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets.
   • There are refugees and black marketers, defrocked bankers and resistance fighters, gamblers, floozies, French colonial policemen, American and Spanish entertainers, and, eventually, Nazi officers (who in reality never set foot in Casablanca). 2012 March 19, David Denby, “Everybody Comes to Rick’s: “Casablanca” on the Big Screen”, in The New Yorker, archived from the original on 30 Dec 2024:

Forms

Synonyms

promiscuous woman

Translations (33)

bg курва (vulgar or sexually promiscuous woman) · ru уличная шлю́ха (prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets) · cs šlapka (vulgar or sexually promiscuous woman) · bg улична проститутка (prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets) · cs šlapka (prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets) · pl ulicznica (prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets) · cs lehká děva (vulgar or sexually promiscuous woman) · cmn 流鶯 /流莺 (prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets) · pl lafirynda (vulgar or sexually promiscuous woman) · sv sköka (prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets) · cs děvka (vulgar or sexually promiscuous woman) · pl zdzira (prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets) · pl zdzira (vulgar or sexually promiscuous woman) · cs běhna (vulgar or sexually promiscuous woman) · nl tippelaarster (prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets) · de Flittchen (vulgar or sexually promiscuous woman) · nl del (vulgar or sexually promiscuous woman) · sv fnask (prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets) · pt oferecida (vulgar or sexually promiscuous woman) · sv slampa (vulgar or sexually promiscuous woman) · sv slinka (vulgar or sexually promiscuous woman) · nl slons (vulgar or sexually promiscuous woman) · nl sloerie (vulgar or sexually promiscuous woman) · pl rozpustnica (vulgar or sexually promiscuous woman) · es ramera (prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets) · de Bordsteinschwalbe (prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets) · cs coura (vulgar or sexually promiscuous woman) · cs pouliční děvka (prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets) · sv glädjeflicka (prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets) · de leichtes Mädchen (prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets) · nl straatmadelief (prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets) · nl deerne (vulgar or sexually promiscuous woman) · sv gatflicka (prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets)