pramface

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A form of pram face — A poor teenage mother, or someone perceived as looking like one.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

nounpramface (plural pramfaces)

plural pramfaces

  1. alternativeAlternative form of pram face.

    Only the chorus of witches inhabit a plaid-free world. Yet they stick to their clans reflecting not the seven ages of man but, as some see it, the three eras of woman: pramface floozy, middle-aged slapper and flabby old bag.

    2010 June 20, Fiona Maddocks, “Macbeth, The Love for Three Oranges, Armida, A Midsummer Night's Dream”, in The Guardian
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    The past decade or so has witnessed the rise and rise of a savage snobbery that selects for vilification the most systematically deprived and excluded British citizens. Otherwise 'respectable' people have no qualms about sneering at chavs, povvoes and pramfaces - all perceived to huddle together on their 'sink' estates.

    2007 January 14, Sarah Wise, “Apartheid is alive and well in Britain”, in The Guardian

    If some of these all too common toe-rag, pramface mothers had taken the wise choice to have an abortion instead of raising their scally kids on benefits on estates that are very often universities for criminals, many of the perpetrators of such crimes wouldn't exist.

    2010 April 21, Legend-11, “Re: If you thought Iran was bad...”, in uk.sport.football.clubs.liverpool (Usenet)
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APA

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Chicago

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