Thesaurus:promiscuous woman

Thesaurus:promiscuous woman

THESAURUS

promiscuous woman

English

Synonyms

NB: All terms are usually pejorative unless stated otherwise.

• alley cat (figurative, humorous)
• alleycat (figurative, humorous)
• amorette (obsolete)
• amoret (obsolete)
• amorosa (archaic)
• article (archaic)
• Athanasian wench (archaic)
• blowsabella (obsolete)
• chippy (US, slang)
• cocotte
• cockslut (vulgar)
• cockwhore (vulgar)
• crumpet (Britain, slang)
• cum dumpster (vulgar)
• cumguzzler (vulgar)
• cumhole (vulgar)
• cumslut (vulgar)
• cumwhore (vulgar)
• Cyprian (obsolete)
• demimondaine
• doxy (archaic)
• drab (dated)
• eager beaver (humorous)
• Essex girl (UK)
• flirt-gill (obsolete)
• floogy
• floosie
• floosy
• floozie
• floozy
• fornicator
• fornicatour (obsolete)
• fornicatress
• fornicatrix
• fuckstress (vulgar)
• Fulham virgin (dated, UK)
• geebag (Ireland, slang)
• giglot (obsolete)
• gillian (archaic)
• gill (archaic)
• good-time girl (euphemistic)
• grim (MLE, slang, ca. 2006)
• grisette
• harlot
• ho bag (slang)
• ho-bag (slang)
• hoe bag (slang)
• hoe-bag (slang)
• hoe (US, slang)
• hoochie mama (slang)
• hoochie (slang)
• hood rat (slang)
• ho (slang)
• hussy
• jade
• jay (obsolete)
• jillflirt (archaic)
• lady of light virtue
• LBFM (US, navy, slang)
• light-o'-love
• light-of-love
• lightskirt (dated)
• little brown fucking machine (US, navy, slang)
• loose woman
• lorette (dated)
• mab (obsolete)
• manizer
• minx
• moll
• mort wap-apace (obsolete, cant)
• nymphomaniac
• painted Jezebel (obsolete)
• puta (chiefly US Hispanic)
• puzzel (obsolete)
• quean (archaic)
• quicumque vult (archaic)
• quiff
• rig (obsolete)
• scag (slang, originally African American Vernacular)
• scrubber (UK, slang)
• skank (slang)
• skettle (Caribbean)
• sket (UK)
• skit (obsolete)
• slag (UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, slang)
• slapper (Britain, Ireland, Australia, slang)
• slattern (archaic)
• sloven (obsolete)
• slutbag (vulgar)
• slut (vulgar)
• stale (obsolete)
• streel
• strumpet (archaic)
• sweet cheeks (informal)
• tartlet (slang)
• tart (Britain, slang)
• thotty (US, slang)
• thot (US, slang)
• town bicycle (slang)
• town bike (slang)
• tramp
• treddle (informal)
• trollop
• trull
• village bicycle (slang)
• village bike (Britain, slang)
• wagon (Ireland, dated)
• waistcoateer (obsolete)
• wanton    [⇒ thesaurus] (archaic)
• wench (archaic)
• whore (vulgar)

Archetypes

• Aspasia (archaic)
• Delilah (dated)
• Jezebel (dated)
• Lais (archaic)
• Messalina (dated)
• Phryne (dated)
• Thais (dated)

Antonyms

• promiscuous man    [⇒ thesaurus]
•   —
• celibate    [⇒ thesaurus]
• virgin    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hyponyms

• lolita    [⇒ thesaurus]
• prostitute    [⇒ thesaurus]
•   —
• adventuress
• demirep
• lacrosstitute (informal)
• sorostitute (US, slang)

Hypernyms

• libidinist    [⇒ thesaurus]
• sexual partner    [⇒ thesaurus]
• woman    [⇒ thesaurus]

Various

• adulteress
• advoutress (obsolete)

See also

• Thesaurus:flirt (verb)
• Thesaurus:prostitute
• Thesaurus:promiscuous man
• Thesaurus:sexual partner
• Thesaurus:vamp

Further reading

• “962. libertine” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.