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playgirl colloq.|ˈpleɪgɜːl|
Also play girl, play-girl.
[f. play n. + girl n.]
A woman who sets out to enjoy herself; a good-time girl. Cf. playboy.
1934Sun (Baltimore) 9 Oct. 7/3 Colletta..had better be good or she will be sent to a reformatory, her mother..warned today as the Pittsburgh (Pa.) playgirl arrived in Manila. 1935Mademoiselle May 15 Just trick yourself out in your wildest clothes and turn playgirl for one evening. 1935A. J. Pollock Underworld Speaks 89/1 Play girl, a promiscuous female who goes out for a good time. 1939F. Scott Fitzgerald Let. 4 Jan. (1964) 283 She has tendencies toward being a play-girl and has been put on probation. 1942Time 16 Feb. 64/2 Victor Mature..announced the breakup of his eight-month marriage to Martha Stephenson Kemp, complained that she was a ‘playgirl’. 1963I. Fleming On H.M. Secret Service v. 55 The worm of self-destruction..behind the wild, playgirl façade, was eating away..her soul. 1964Punch 8 Jan. 66/3 A rich American playgirl. 1977Spare Rib Jan. 41/3 And more and more they will try to con us into believing that, for playgirls as well as playboys, a taste for porn is a proof of liberation. |