fancy woman

fancy woman

n

slang a mistress or prostitute

mis•tress

(ˈmɪs trɪs)

n.

1. a woman who has authority, esp. the female head of a household or the like.

2. a woman employing servants or attendants.

3. a female owner of an animal, or formerly, a slave.

4. a woman who has a continuing sexual relationship with a usu. married man who provides her with financial support.

5. a woman who has possession or control of something: mistress of a great fortune.

6. a woman who is skilled in an occupation or art.

7. (sometimes cap.) something regarded as feminine that has control or supremacy: England, mistress of the seas.

8. (cap.) (formerly) a term of address corresponding to Mrs., Miss, or Ms.

9. Brit. a female schoolteacher.

10. Archaic. sweetheart.

[1275–1325; < Middle French, Old French, =maistre (< Latin magister; see master) + -esse -ess]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	fancy woman - a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money bawd, cocotte, cyprian, harlot, lady of pleasure, prostitute, sporting lady, tart, whore, woman of the street, working girl call girl - a female prostitute who can be hired by telephone camp follower - a prostitute who provides service to military personnel comfort woman, ianfu - a woman forced into prostitution for Japanese servicemen during World War II; "she wrote a book about her harsh experiences as a comfort woman" demimondaine - a woman whose sexual promiscuity places her outside respectable society hustler, slattern, street girl, streetwalker, floozie, floozy, hooker - a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets white slave - a woman sold into prostitution adult female, woman - an adult female person (as opposed to a man); "the woman kept house while the man hunted"
	2.	fancy woman - an adulterous woman; a woman who has an ongoing extramarital sexual relationship with a man kept woman, mistress lover - a significant other to whom you are not related by marriage concubine, courtesan, doxy, paramour - a woman who cohabits with an important man adult female, woman - an adult female person (as opposed to a man); "the woman kept house while the man hunted"

Translations

fancy woman

n (old) (pej) → amica