Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A woman who is regarded as evil and scheming.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An impudent, violent, unscrupulous, vicious woman.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A bold, vicious woman; a termagant.
WordNet 3.0
- n. wife of Ahab who was king of Israel; according to the Old Testament she was a cruel immoral queen who fostered the worship of Baal and tried to kill Elijah and other prophets of Israel (9th century BC)
- n. a shameless impudent scheming woman
Etymologies
- After Jezebel . (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Can't wait for Parker Posey and Lauren Ambrose in "jezebel.”
“Of course the picture on the cover of the book just had to be that of a black woman. that's the only way we can truly recognize the severity of the "jezebel" issue”
“Hi, hope I don't come across as blunt here but I would dump your "jezebel" like a hot potato if it were me, brother!”
“He can be involved, apologize and still go to the grammy's but Janet is the "black whore", "jezebel", etc who is oversexed and must be stopped!”
“Dodai Stewart of jezebel.com, who has written about the lack of diversity among models, does not expect to see an Asian model on the cover of Vogue's all-powerful US edition any time soon.”
The Guardian: Chinese models stride the catwalk as the west eyes China's rich fashion market
“Yet this February, jezebel.com – which has tallied the model count at shows for several years – reported the whitest New York fashion week since 2008.”
The Guardian: Chinese models stride the catwalk as the west eyes China's rich fashion market
“I know that, as “flash fiction” has gotten more popular, there is a backlash, saying that the writing is annoyingly “clever;” recently a “6 Word Memoirs” compilation was published, and jezebel. com derided it.”
“As the American website jezebel. com suggested quite rightly, perhaps the reason Atticus's explanation is a little soft is because he is talking to his six-year-old daughter, whom he does not want to have nightmares about lynchings.”
“The next day he continued the fight by tweeting a picture of a bikini-clad girl riding a broomstick, as a definition for jezebel.”
The Huffington Post: Scott Baio Defends Wife's Anti-Lesbian Facebook Rant
“When Paris was arrested, bloggers had only one question: "Is it weird that I really like her hair?" worried HeyGirlHey on jezebel. com.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘jezebel’.
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Scrabble Names
Given names that were acceptable for play the last time I checked the OWL.
kris, ray, barb, morris, kat, mark, maria, erica, marge, mason, hunter, hazel and 168 more...
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Serendipity's Words
defenestration, mercurial, syzygy, wicked, iniquitous, metastable, demimonde, entropic, ephemeral, irreligious, frisbee, manifold and 474 more...
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Scrabble words which start with the l...
juvenile, juvenal, jutty, jute, jut, justness, justly, justle, justify, justice, juster, just and 534 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
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katiad's Words
exquisite, obnoxious, noxious, extravaganza, whirlwind, whirling, wild, spinster, existential, chaos, zephyr, blasphemy and 310 more...
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Monovocalics
Words that have only one of the vowels. On this list I include only words with at least three vowels. When I first started the list, if a word had several forms, I generally listed only the one wit...
syzygy, mirific, cumulus, homolog, monocot, bedewed, jezebel, referee, bikini, minikin, locomotor, terebenthene and 2359 more...
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originally started as an attempt to collect words I found visually and auditorially beautiful, as well as psychically evocative, this has become nothing more than a grab bag of word curiosities, a ...
bergamot, jambalaya, bee's knees, heliotrope, hosanna, gamboge, aureole, filial, madrigal, multilingual, sacrosanct, sojourn and 1072 more...
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Femmesque
Curious words having to do with women: positive or negative; feminine, observational, technical, weird, stupid, crass, etc. I loathe some of these words but I'm using this list as a catch-all... ev...
mittelschmerz, gynotikolobomasso..., ingenue, uxorious, hogminny, quim, suffragette, damsel, madame, parturient, testatrix, mediatrix and 188 more...
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vnilla's Words
mellifluous, lackadaisical, effervescent, languorous, lilting, juxtapose, coalesce, desideratum, fey, intrinsic, languid, luminous and 134 more...
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suunflowerss's Words
bakery, crisp, pollywog, crescent, chrysanthemum, aluminum, turquoise, bazooka, crotch rocket, paisley, vermouth, dildo and 107 more...
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Burning Love: A Novel
smolder, tantalizing, sexy, lust, sinewy, tempestuous, erotic, sensuous, naughty, love, crave, consort and 46 more...
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Names
ollivander, christiana amanpour, iolanthe, hermione, justinian, demetrius, margot, vivian, anyanka, anya, anastasia, jezebel and 10 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for jezebel.
bilby "Ms Knox is indeed very attractive (to look at, I mean - not to take home to meet your mum). But it is the suggestion that she in some way facilitated both the sexual assault on Meredith Kercher and the subsequent murder that has grabbed hold of the public’s interest. Apparently, the Italian police have accused Knox of restraining Meredith while the two men assaulted and then killed her. Knox, meanwhile 'either devious and amoral or deeply confused or all three' has changed her story several times, having sort of confessed and then sort of unconfessed. She is, say the police, an inveterate liar. And with Amanda Knox we have been given an extra ingredient that will always command acres of space in our newspapers: the sexually deviant Jezebel."
- Rob Liddle, A prurience about women and murder, spectator.co.uk, 17 Nov 2007. Feb 16, 2009