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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.
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 ...
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.
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.
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 ...
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 Oxford English Dictionary’s earliest citations for mistress are from the fourteenth century when it meant, very broadly, ‘a woman having control or authority’. It had the sense of ‘a woman loved and courted by a man; a female sweetheart’, with no indication of impropriety, very early, perhaps a mere 100 years after its first ...
The first definition may be found more often in books, which probably explains why the OED lists it as being first. However, Oxford Dictionaries, and The Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary both state that slut is: 1a) a woman who has many casual sexual partners. and list it as their first definition.
Speaking as a complete outsider, with no prior knowledge of ratchet as post–Jimmy Cliff slang, I have to say that the term as used by the Hudsons reminds me quite a bit of skanky, which derived from skank (“An unattractive woman; a malodorous woman; =SKAG,” according to Robert Chapman and Barbara Kipfer, Dictionary of American Slang ...