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whipper-ginnie

whipper-ginnie noun: a slut or slattern.

Noun

whipper-ginnie (plural whipper-ginnies)

  1. (obsolete) A slut or slattern.
    • And that fornicators (after they had obtained their desires according to the course of lawe) should, stroking vppe their crooked shankes, and belabouring their rusty beardes with their wetherbeaten fingers, seeking other wenches, meet with whipper ginnies that should knowe how to vse such old...1593, Frederick James Furnivall, Tell-Trothes New Yeares Gift
    • "Methingks you Clithereare's nun hath a reasty look , forsooth!" "Reasty?", retorted that housewife, " Callest thou me a whipper-ginnie, thou hufty-tufty cumtwang?"1978, Logophile - Volume 2, Issue 6, page 10

Forms of whipper-ginnie

pluralwhipper-ginnies

Questions about whipper-ginnie

What does whipper-ginnie mean?
Whipper-ginnie means a slut or slattern.
What part of speech is whipper-ginnie?
Whipper-ginnie is a noun.
What is the plural of whipper-ginnie?
The plural of whipper-ginnie is whipper-ginnies.

Words near whipper-ginnie in the dictionary

  1. whipper
  2. whipper snapper
  3. whipper snappers
  4. whipper snipper
  5. whipper snippers
  6. whipper-ginnie
  7. whipper-ginnies
  8. whipper-in
  9. whipper-ins
  10. whipper-snapper
  11. whipper-snappers

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