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ladettes

ladettes is the plural of ladette.

Meaning of ladette

Noun

ladette (plural ladettes)

  1. (informal) A young woman who behaves in a laddish manner, namely being boisterous and loud and drinking to excess.
    • It could be argued that the rise of the socially conscious model reflects a very 2017 archetype: the “woke” young woman, who looks set to define femininity this decade in the same way that the lager-swilling ladette did in the 90s. It is also symptomatic of a broader cultural “awokening” that has...2017 May 15, Hannah Marriott, “Woke models: how activism became fashion's latest must-have”, in The Guardian, London, page 9
    Synonyms:
    geezerbird, tomboy

Questions about ladettes

What is ladettes the plural of?
Ladettes is the plural of ladette.

Words near ladettes in the dictionary

  1. laders
  2. lades
  3. ladest
  4. ladeth
  5. ladette
  6. ladettes
  7. ladettish
  8. ladettishness
  9. ladettism
  10. Ladewig
  11. Ladewigs

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