A South Carolina listener recalls that his father referred to the younger man’s girlfriend with a term that sounded like jing floogy or jing floogie. The word floogie has long been a synonym for floozy, a term applied to women, and often...
Strumpet is an old insult for a prostitute or a woman supposedly of loose morals, though today it often sounds more theatrical than venomous, closer to trollop or floozy. Quincy in San Diego heard it from his wife during the COVID-19 lockdown, when...
What’s the best term for an ex-wife’s new husband? A caller in Chico, California, is friendly with both his ex-wife and her new love, and wonders if there’s a more civil term than floozy. Other options: the second shift, and Tupperware, since that...