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 .
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.”
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