Essex girlnoun [ C ]
also Essex Girl /ˈes.ɪks ˌɡɜːl//ˈes.ɪks ˌɡɝːl/UK informal disapprovingan insulting word for a young woman who dresses and behaves in a way that attracts attention, and shows that she is not intelligent or stylish, thought of as typical of some people from the English county of Essex:
Finally, the Essex Girl stereotype seems to be dying.
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- When I came up to Cambridge, I never expected to be taught by someone who wears five-inch heels, has tattoos, and speaks like an Essex girl.
- This is one of London's more exclusive hotels. No loud Essex girls at the reception here.
- These were Essex girls with the funds to fly anywhere but who wouldn't dream of exchanging any holiday for their twice-a-year jaunts in a cramped caravan living on vodka and baked beans.
- She's an authentic Essex girl - born in Basildon to a Tilbury docker - who loves to shock.
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- popular
- popularly
- prole
- the common man idiom
- the general public
- the hoi polloi
- the man/woman in the street idiom
- the man/woman on the Clapham omnibus idiom
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