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This working class term from East London and Essex is probably a corruption of shlepper or schlepper, a word of Yiddish origin, one of whose meanings is a slovenly or immoral woman. The 1854 quotes in sense 1 are: 1. dial. A large thing or object; a big, strapping, or overgrown person. 1854 A. E. Baker Gloss.
6. The common slang connotation of the term cougar is that of older women who have sexual relationships with younger men. The expression appears to come from Canada but its origin is still unclear as the following sources suggest: The origin of the word cougar as a slang term is debated, but it is thought to have originated in Western Canada ...
Google's first definition for handsome: " (of a man) good-looking." Dictionary.com on handsome: "having an attractive, well-proportioned, and imposing appearance suggestive of health and strength; good-looking: ", on pretty, "pleasing or attractive to the eye, as by delicacy or gracefulness."
5. The verb emasculate has at least three related but distinct meanings, given by the OED as: trans. To deprive of virility, to castrate (a male person or animal). transf. and fig. To deprive of strength and vigour; to weaken, make effeminate and cowardly; to enfeeble, impoverish (language). b. esp.
So historically, a fishwife was just a woman who sold fish. Over time, since fishwives were often "loud and foul-mouthed," their job title became synonymous with your definition of "a bad-tempered woman with a loud voice." Interestingly, fishwives have had different reputations in different areas. In Billingsgate, there were "the wives of ...
The foot-woman connection did not seem very solid to me so I searched the dictionaries at my disposal. In the Dictionary of the Scots Language I found the word “toots,” a word related to a more convincing body part: TOOT, int., v.2 Also tout; toots, touts; tets, tits, t(y)uts and reduplic. forms toot(s)-toot(s), tuts-tuts.
Slut: Disparaging and Offensive. a sexually promiscuous woman, or a woman who behaves or dresses in an overtly sexual way. Not the nicest or most proper word, but IMO definitely the most accurate. Promiscuous. might not be a bad choice either. Although it tends to be gender neutral, it seems to be used more commonly with reference to women.
The English took the word gigolo from the French in the 1920s. But the word was rather recent in the French language at the time. It had appeared in French, together with its feminine equivalent gigolette, in the middle of the 19 th century. What’s interesting is that there are two suspected origins to the words gigolo and gigolette in French.
3) a woman. Etymology: First recorded in 1965–70; dialectal or Black English pronunciation of whore (Dictionary.com) Green’s Dictionary of Slang has a couple of entries about the “neutral” meanings of ho: 1) woman. generic term describing any woman (ostensibly neutral, but the undertones of its ety still make it controversial). 2 ...
It's somewhat like the word 'temptress'. Traditionally this is the role of a woman. To call a man a 'tempter' just doesn't taste quite the same. That's assuming that you roll the words around on your tongue before saying them.