Definitions for bluestocking

bluestocking blue·stock·ing

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

Bluestocking is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 27 points.

You can make 1710 anagrams from letters in bluestocking (bcegiklnostu).

Definitions for bluestocking

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 bluestocking

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 bluestocking

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for bluestocking
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Words with friends

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