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skirt
noun
a woman or women objectified sexually UK, 1899
In conventional English usage until the late C19 when Victorians deemed it slang; not necessarily pejorative or contemptuous, however various compounds, some now obsolete, objectify women: “a light skirt” (a loose woman), a BIT OF SKIRTIt’s funny how when you got two skirts going together one of them is always sorta shy and twisted like and the other is always dead brassy. — John Peter Jones, Feather Pluckers, p. 40, 1964 The brother inebriates worried about me for a week or two, undeniably saddened that one of their members should so suddenly go to ruin over a skirt. — John Nichols, The Sterile Cuckoo, p. 87, 1965 Maybe you should have been a lawyer instead of a dumb skirt workin’ behind a register. — 48 Hours, 1982 Totty. Copping for totty. Skirt. — Henry Sloane, Sloane’s Inside Guide to Sex & Drugs & Rock ’n’ Roll, p. 34, 1985 Whistler’s just got over a skirt that did a number on him. — Robert Campbell, Alice in La-La Land, p. 166, 1987 So what’s this skirt’s name? — Chasing Amy, 1997 Now I want you to level with me: did you knock this skirt up? — There’s Something About Mary, 1998 |