fire crotch
n.— «The Queen was chosen to represent respectability, in a community where everyone knows the difference between the “church gyaal” (“study brains,” “homegyaal”), and the “loose woman” (“vamp up,” “engine,” “fire crotch”) who has children by many different men (“patchwork children”).» —“Connections and Contradictions: From the Crooked Tree Cashew Queen to Miss World Belize” by Richard Wilk Nov. 13, 1995. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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