ladette

British

/ ˌlædˈɛt /

noun

informal a young woman whose social behaviour is similar to that of male adolescents or young men

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The onetime ladette of the YBA movement is now a 50-something woman living quietly in rural Suffolk.

From BBC • May 6, 2015

More refined, you might say, though not too much, we're not talking ladette to lady here.

From The Guardian • Oct. 12, 2012

Any attempts to force Laverne into this mould failed miserably; she dismissed offers of ladmag shoots and rejected invitations to recast herself as a ladette and appear on football shows.

From The Guardian • Jul. 1, 2010

The teenage, high-living Amber is a bit of an Irish ladette who discovers, as she is about to dump her boyfriend, that she is pregnant.

From The Guardian • Apr. 20, 2010

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