floozie

• floozy, floosy, floosie, floogy

Corruption of flossy in the sense of showy.

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈfluː.zi/

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• Rhymes: -uːzi

floozie (plural floozies)

1. A vulgar or sexually promiscuous woman; a hussy or slattern.
   • 1957, Jack Kerouac, chapter 13, in On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC, part 1:

     «Sure thing. You going with that little Mexican floozy?»

   • 1976, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift, New York: Avon, →ISBN, page 418:

     Now I was a forsaken codger snuffling disgracefully from a beautiful floozy's abuse.

2. A prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets.
   • 2012 March 19, David Denby, “Everybody Comes to Rick’s: “Casablanca” on the Big Screen”, in The New Yorker‎:

     There are refugees and black marketers, defrocked bankers and resistance fighters, gamblers, floozies, French colonial policemen, American and Spanish entertainers, and, eventually, Nazi officers (who in reality never set foot in Casablanca).

• see Thesaurus:promiscuous woman