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floosie, floozie, floozy colloq.|ˈfluːzɪ| [Orig. unkn., but cf. dial. floosy adj., fluffy, soft (f. floose, see floss2) and flossy a.] A girl or woman, esp. one of disreputable character.
1911C. B. Chrysler White Slavery iii. 30 Tell that floosie to cut out that yelping. 1911Dialect Notes III. 543 John took his floozy to the baseball game. 1927[see baby n. 1 c]. 1944B. Marshall All Glorious Within xix. 144 In the bathroom scene..she has her bath and sings Ave Maria just to show she ain't no floosie. 1951T. Capote Grass Harp 39 He bought a red racy car and went skidding around..with every floozy in town; the only nice girls you ever saw in that car were his sisters. 1952H. W. Tilman Nepal Himalaya ii. xv. 183 The men dallied with a Siren, in less classical language, a ‘floozie’ who sat on a roof combing her wonderfully straight black hair. 1958B. Nichols Sweet & Twenties vii. 91 The usual anaemic floosies in pastel shades. 1959B. Goolden For Richer, for Poorer i. 11 Why the floozies? 1978J. Irving World according to Garp xviii. 383 Just think a minute... Suppose she's just a floozy. 1984L. Deighton Mexico Set vii. 107 Stinnes had reached that dangerous age when a man was only susceptible to an innocent cutie or to an experienced floozy. |