Jezebel:
Or: jezebel :1. An evil, scheming woman .
2. A morally-loose woman . See playgirl for synonyms.
3. A prostitute . See prostitute for synonyms.
4. In 19 th century Britain, a short-lived synonym for penis . See penis for synonyms.
ETYMOLOGY: From the Bible, Jezebel, the infamously wicked wife of Ahab, king of Israel. Rosalie Maggio, The Dictionary of Bias-Free Usage (1991): ' The biblical story of Jezebel shows a murdering, controlling, rapacious person. She is primarily an amoral manipulator and only secondarily a woman . Instead of focusing on Jezebel's viciousness, the dictionary definition of a jezebel emphasizes her sexuality (a shameless or abandoned woman) when in fact Jezebel did not in any way trade on her sex to carry out her evil deeds .'
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