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bluestockings

bluestockings is the plural of bluestocking.

Meaning of bluestocking

Noun

bluestocking (plural bluestockings)

  1. (derogatory, usually) A scholarly, literary, or cultured woman.
    • Many of her ladyship’s letters were the most whimsical rhodomontades that ever blue-stocking penned.1844 August, Fitz-Boodle [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], “Barry Provides for His Family and Attains the Height of His Luck”, in “The Luck of Barry Lyndon; A Romance of the Last Century”, in...
    Synonyms:
    basbleu
  2. (historical) A member of an 18th-century Blue Stockings Society.
  3. (historical) A member of the English parliament of 1653, more commonly called the Barebones Parliament.

Questions about bluestockings

What is bluestockings the plural of?
Bluestockings is the plural of bluestocking.

Words near bluestockings in the dictionary

  1. bluesters
  2. bluestocking
  3. bluestockinged
  4. bluestockingish
  5. bluestockingism
  6. bluestockings
  7. bluestone
  8. bluestoned
  9. bluestones
  10. bluestoning
  11. bluestreak

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