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light-skirt

light-skirt is the alternative spelling of lightskirt.

Meaning of lightskirt

Noun

lightskirt (plural lightskirts)

  1. (dated, derogatory) A woman of lax morality; a prostitute.
    • The Greekes were fooles, that for a light-skirt strumper, Chang'd the stil vial to a lowd-mouthd trumpet.1639, Nathaneel Whiting, The most pleasante historie of Albino and Bellama

Forms of light-skirt

plurallight-skirts

Questions about light-skirt

What is light-skirt the alternative spelling of?
Light-skirt is the alternative spelling of lightskirt.

Words near light-skirt in the dictionary

  1. light-ships
  2. light-shot
  3. light-skin
  4. light-skinned
  5. light-skins
  6. light-skirt
  7. light-skirts
  8. light-spirited
  9. light-struck
  10. light-tight
  11. light-timbered

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