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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 moneyplay

2. an adulterous woman; a woman who has an ongoing extramarital sexual relationship with a manplay

  Familiarity information: FANCY WOMAN used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FANCY WOMAN (noun)


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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