drabbie

drabbie
n
British
a 'frump', 'bluestocking' or puritanical person, usually female. A middle-class term of mild derision or disapproval, based on 'drab' and applied, often by journalists, in the 1980s to literary, academic or other professional women who deliberately eschewed a glamorous appearance.

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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