Definitions for bluestockings

bluestockings blue·stock·ing

Spelling: [bloo-stok-ing]
IPA: /ˈbluˌstɒk ɪŋ/

Bluestockings is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 27 points.

You can make 2041 anagrams from letters in bluestockings (bcegiklnosstu).

Definitions for bluestockings

noun

  1. a woman with considerable scholarly, literary, or intellectual ability or interest.
  2. a member of a mid-18th-century London literary circle:

Origin of bluestockings

1675-85; so called from the informal attire, especially blue woolen instead of black silk stockings, worn by some women of the group (def 2)

Examples for bluestockings

If mine were Roman instead of retrouss, I would probably have been a bluestocking and respected by Mr. Ormsby.

"Men do so hate a bluestocking," she said once pensively to her friend Emily.

A bluestocking and a sansculotte (not a very usual combination), she was also a woman of the very latest cry in frocks.

The don and the bluestocking have to live, so have the cowboy and the cook.

"No, now that she has become a bluestocking she has finally renounced her former infatuations," he told himself.

Dear bluestocking, you really are— murmured the Gentle Lady.

This foible led an unusually energetic Boston bluestocking to refer to him in a caustic style on one occasion as “effeminate.”

I am not going to caricature a bluestocking, but to point out one or two real dangers.

This was the most brilliant moment in the public career of our bluestocking.

Though a bluestocking, her praise was usually generously bestowed; she knew well how to flatter.

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