flossie

plural flossies

1. slangA sexually promiscuous person (usually a woman); a sex worker, prostitute.

   ‘Not tonight, lovey. I’ve seen better flossies on the battlefields of France and they came cheaper too.’

   1986, Iris Gower, Morgan’s Woman, page 202

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   Has all the essential qualities of manhood from standing on the street corner flirting with pretty flossies to arguing with his professors on disputed points of psychology

   1908, Agromeck, North Carolina State University Student Publication Authority, page 47

   There are about 200 male and female “flossies” who come to the University of Texas solely for a good time, Dr. Robert E. Vinson, presi­dent of the university, declar­ed

   1922 February 16, “Presence of “flossies” holds entire school”, in Ada Evening News, Ada, Oklahoma

   Somehow all decent men seem to become entangled with a Flossie in their youth. The more decent they are, the flossier the Flossies.

   1934 April, P. O'C [Peter O'Crotty], “Alpine Aria”, in The Villager, page 8

1. A diminutive of the female given name Florence.

   'Otto's at a conference about Free Open-Source Software. It's his big passion. That's why we called the baby Flossie―F-O-S-S. The French geeks stuck an 'L' in for femininity.'

   2012, Marina Lewycka, Various Pets Alive and Dead, Fig Tree, →ISBN, page 291

2. A diminutive of the female given name Flora.

   "Big School is more fun than Primary School," said Flossie to her mother as they both sat at the kitchen table, eating their lunch together. "Isn't it, Mum?"

   1982, Hunter Davies, Flossie Teacake's Fur Coat