bluestocking

blue·stock·ing  (blstkng)

n.

A woman with strong scholarly or literary interests.

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[After the Blue Stocking Society, a nickname for a predominantly female literary club of 18th-century London.]

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bluestocking [ˈbluːˌstɒkɪŋ]

n

Usually disparaging a scholarly or intellectual woman

[from the blue worsted stockings worn by members of a C18 literary society]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

bluestocking - a woman having literary or intellectual interests bas bleu adult female, woman - an adult female person (as opposed to a man); "the woman kept house while the man hunted"

Translations

bluestocking (o.f.) [ˈbluːˌstɒkɪŋ] N (= scholarly woman) → literata f, marisabidilla f

bluestocking blue-stocking [ˈbluːstɒkɪŋ] (old-fashioned) n → bas-bleu m
blue tit n → mésange f bleue