lightskirtとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From light +‎ skirt.

名詞

lightskirt (plural lightskirts)

1. (dated, derogatory) A woman of lax morality; a prostitute.
   • 1639, Nathaneel Whiting, The most pleasante historie of Albino and Bellama‎:

     The Greekes were fooles, that for a light-skirt strumper, Chang'd the stil vial to a lowd-mouthd trumpet.

   • 1901 [1847], Ellen Marriage, transl., Cousin Pons‎, translation of Le Cousin Pons by Honoré de Balzac:

     “A no-better-than-she-should-be, a light-skirts that you may see half-naked any evening for a couple of francs,” La Cibot answered in an undertone for Mme. Chapoulot’s ear.

   • 1912, Lascelles Abercrombie, Emblems of Love‎:

     O you light-skirts! who is it now? You think I can't guess what your business is? Is it aught fresh, or only old stuff warmed?

   • 1917, George W. Gough, The Yeoman Adventurer, page 105:

     And while the peppery little beadle's eyes were searching the japer out, another added, “More's the pity, for 'er's a bit of a light-skirt.”

   • 2020 December 25, Chris Van Dusen, “Diamond of the First Water”, in Bridgerton, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Lady Portia Featherington:

     She’s lucky her gentleman agreed to a hasty marriage after she went and ruined herself. Lightskirts.

Further reading

• “light-skirts”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “light skirt(s) n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present