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FANCY WOMAN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does fancy woman mean?
• FANCY WOMAN (noun)
The noun FANCY WOMAN has 2 senses:
1. a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money
2. an adulterous woman; a woman who has an ongoing extramarital sexual relationship with a man
Familiarity information: FANCY WOMAN used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
bawd; cocotte; cyprian; fancy woman; harlot; lady of pleasure; prostitute; sporting lady; tart; whore; woman of the street; working girl
Hypernyms ("fancy woman" is a kind of...):
adult female; woman (an adult female person (as opposed to a man))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fancy woman"):
call girl (a female prostitute who can be hired by telephone)
camp follower (a prostitute who provides service to military personnel)
comfort woman; ianfu (a woman forced into prostitution for Japanese servicemen during World War II)
demimondaine (a female prostitute)
floozie; floozy; hooker; hustler; slattern; street girl; streetwalker (a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets)
white slave (a woman sold into prostitution)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An adulterous woman; a woman who has an ongoing extramarital sexual relationship with a man
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
fancy woman; kept woman; mistress
Hypernyms ("fancy woman" is a kind of...):
lover (a significant other to whom you are not related by marriage)
adult female; woman (an adult female person (as opposed to a man))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fancy woman"):
concubine; courtesan; doxy; paramour (a woman who cohabits with an important man)
Instance hyponyms:
Braun; Eva Braun (the German mistress of Adolf Hitler (1910-1945))
Delilah ((Old Testament) the Philistine mistress of Samson who betrayed him by cutting off his hair and so deprived him of his strength)
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