floozy
Americannoun
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floozies
plural
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a gaudily dressed, usually immoral or sexually promiscuous woman (now often used facetiously).
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a prostitute.
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of floozy
First recorded in 1905–10; origin uncertain
Example Sentences
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Left by his wife, a vain rodeo star picks up a floozy and rides a bad Brahman bull.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2019
By the early twenties, both young women were on the stage, having overcome parental objections by sidestepping the floozy connotations of such a career.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 19, 2015
Then Rebecca’s barely in her grave and that gadabout Maxim is littering the place up with some gold-digging floozy who thinks she can waltz right in and take over.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 18, 2015
As Carmo, Ms. Loureiro makes something believable out of a filmmaker’s fantasy of the frontier floozy; the script spells out Carmo’s desperation to escape, but it’s Ms. Loureiro’s frightened eyes that make us feel it.
From New York Times ● Oct. 15, 2010
Midler, on the other hand, is our great show-biz floozy, and Allen personifies the anxious urban intellect.
From Time Magazine Archive
At her best, playing warmhearted floozies in Some Like It Hot and Bus Stop, she's like a slightly bruised moonbeam, something fragile and funny and imperiled.
From Time Magazine Archive
The derelicts in Harry Hope's bar come from all of life's fallen ranks ?army officers, Harvard men, journalists, pimps and floozies.
From Time Magazine Archive
Jan Sterling, 82, played blond floozies with brains in "Caged," "Ace in the Hole," "The High and the Mighty" and "High School Confidential."
From Time Magazine Archive
As choreographer, he opened out James' tale of emotional suffocation by adding such empty flourishes as a street band, a corps of floozies dressed as the Statue of Liberty and even the statue itself.
From Time Magazine Archive
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