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bimbocore

bimbocore noun: an aesthetic based around stereotypical feminine elements such as glitter and the colour pink.

Noun

bimbocore (uncountable)

  1. (TikTok aesthetic) An aesthetic based around stereotypical feminine elements such as glitter and the colour pink.
    • It goes without saying that this is all thanks to social media – invariably the most fertile environment for cretinous ideas and noxious role models – and a landscape in which “bimbocore” now looms large.2022 May 10, Celia Walden, “Celia Walden: Gen Z are deluded if they think ‘bimbo’ can be turned into a compliment”, in The Daily Telegraph
    • But then, when I go to a gay bar in London, I’m like, “Oh, let me do bimbocore for the night,” and I’ll dress up in an ultra-femme way, knowing that I’m not being hypersexualised in that space.2022 June/July, Maddy Alford, quoting Simone Murphy, “Finding pride in our style”, in Cosmopolitan, page 49

Examples of bimbocore in a sentence

  • Then there’s “bimbocore”, a hyper-feminine aesthetic that takes apart patriarchal definitions of femininity and focuses on dressing for yourself, a “modern act of feminism”.2022 September 25, Annie Brown, “Think”, in South China Morning Post:
  • That’s the very caricature that ‘bimbocore’ – a recent social media trend — is using to reclaim ‘hyper-femininity’ through Barbie doll-esque fashion and beauty.2023, Anita Bhagwandas, Ugly: Giving Us Back Our Beauty Standards, Blink Publishing, →ISBN:

Origin of bimbocore

From bimbo + -core.

Questions about bimbocore

What does bimbocore mean?
Bimbocore means an aesthetic based around stereotypical feminine elements such as glitter and the colour pink.
How do you use bimbocore in a sentence?
Then there’s “bimbocore”, a hyper-feminine aesthetic that takes apart patriarchal definitions of femininity and focuses on dressing for yourself, a “modern act of feminism”.
What part of speech is bimbocore?
Bimbocore is a noun.

Words near bimbocore in the dictionary

  1. bimbles
  2. bimbling
  3. bimbo
  4. bimbo eruption
  5. bimbo eruptions
  6. bimbocore
  7. bimbodom
  8. bimboes
  9. bimboesque
  10. bimbofication
  11. bimbohood

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