fancy woman

noun

plural fancy women

dated

1

: a female lover of a man who is married to someone else : mistress

2

a

: a woman who is a sex worker

b

: a woman who has multiple sexual partners : a woman who is sexually promiscuous

—sometimes used as a term of abuse and disparagement

Synonyms

• woman of easy virtue
• siren
• floozie
• Jezebel
• minx
• prostitute [sometimes offensive]
• hussy
• floozy
• trollop

Word History

First Known Use

1819, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for fancy woman

• businesswoman
• congresswoman
• englishwoman
• gentlewoman
• noblewoman
• policewoman
• washerwoman
• chairwoman
• frenchwoman
• kinswoman
• madwoman
• saleswoman