English
Noun
Sense: an adult female
Synonyms
- babe (slang)
- baggage (offensive)
- bim (slang)
- bint (UK, offensive slang)
- bird [⇒ thesaurus] (UK, slang, sometimes offensive)
- bitch (offensive slang)
- blone (Stornoway, slang)
- broad (US, slang)
- chick (slang)
- covess (UK, archaic)
- dame (US, dated slang)
- donna
- feme (law, historical)
- femme
- femoid (derogatory)
- frau
- frow
- gal (sometimes offensive)
- gentlelady (archaic)
- ginch (UK, vulgar, slang)
- hen (UK, slang)
- ho (US, offensive slang)
- huwoman (rare, nonstandard)
- lady
- maness (obsolete, nonce word)
- mort (UK, archaic)
- mulier (obsolete)
- placket (obsolete, slang)
- pussy (offensive slang)
- queen (jocular euphemism)
- she (slang)
- sheila (Australia, slang)
- skirt (US, offensive slang)
- squaw (now offensive, ethnic slur)
- thot (US, offensive slang)
- tía
- twist (US, offensive slang)
- vaginoid (offensive jocular)
- wan (Ireland)
- wife [⇒ thesaurus] (Scotland)
- woman
- wommon (feminist or eye dialect)
- womon (feminist or eye dialect)
- womxn (feminist)
- womyn (feminist)
- wimmin (feminist or eye dialect)
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See also
Further reading
- “woman” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “woman” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.