Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A light, capricious woman; a wanton coquette.
- n. An old dance-tune.
Wiktionary
- n. An old tune of a dance, the name of which made it a proverbial expression of levity, especially in love matters.
- n. by extension A flirtatious or wanton woman.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. An old tune of a dance, the name of which made it a proverbial expression of levity, especially in love matters.
- n. Hence: A light or wanton woman; a woman inconstant in love. Called also
light-of-love .
WordNet 3.0
- n. a woman inconstant in love
Examples
“The nurse and the guards believed FitzRoy was serving as Lord Denno's excuse for being in the area, in order to see his imaginary light-o'-love.”
“And watching his luck was his light-o'-love, the lady that's known as Lou.”
“It was that, during her "Bohemian" period, he had endeavoured to fill the empty niche left in her affections by the departure of that light-o'-love, Captain Lennox, and had been repulsed for his pains.”
“Even on the mornings when I heard Dan's step, soft and wary on the cobbles, before the sun was up, and knew by the look of him, and the gruffness in his voice, that he had travelled many a weary mile from his light-o'-love, and that sleep had not troubled him, I would hear the stable door opening and Dan whistling like the cheery early bird as he opened the corn-kist.”
“That is why a priest's light-o'-love is always some honest man's wife.”
“In a brilliant gleam of electric light, shot from the train in the darkness, I thought I saw the face of my Dolores, with a white gag across the mouth, but the idea seemed so preposterous that I did not give it another thought, thinking it to be some phantom of an overwrought brain, and the woman some light-o'-love of the desperado.”
“Consider – I give them in Shillitoe's formation – the choices open to us: above self-love dove shove glove true-love love lady-love light-o'-love”
“Why, your light-o'-love, for sure, friend, as we found along o 'you on a lonely island, _amigo_.”
“So do you yearn ever for your light-o'-love, for your vanished Joan -- your Damaris that left you --”
“His conversation with "Mame," his light-o'-love, was conducted along this line:”
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A Love List
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Hyphen Nation
Terms with multiple hyphens, such as rent-a-crowd. Not intended to be a see-how-many-words-one-can-string-together-with-hyphens-used-adjectively sort of list.
much-talked-of, vis-à-vis, tête-à-tête, rope-a-dope, will-o'-the-wisp, dick-a-tuesday, will-in-the-wisp, jack-o'-lantern, jack-with-a-lantern, ear-to-ear, whack-a-mole, no-man's-land and 205 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
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Sluts, Bitches, and Goddesses
Words for women.
floozie, whore, cunt, tart, trull, ianfu, demimondaine, demimonde, ball-buster, ball-breaker, bar girl, b-girl and 84 more...
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Just Some Words Learned
words I've learned and liked this summer (2012)
bigot, wanker, poppycock, gobsmacked, cock up, necrolatry, whangdoodle, diddle, badinage, cormorant, light-o'-love, capricious and 11 more...
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perhapsolutely's Words
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O'-ho
tam-o'-shanter, jack-o'-lantern, man-o'-war, will-o'-the-wisp, light-o'-love, cat-o'-nine-tails, hop-o'-my-thumb, tom o' bedlam, bess o' bedlam, john o' groats, five o'clock shadow, o'dark thirty and 25 more...
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