bimbette

bimbette
n
a silly, empty-headed young girl. A jocu-lar diminutive of bimbo, popular in the mid-1980s, first in the USA and then, via magazine articles, in Britain, where it has been enthusiastically taken up and over-used in the tabloid press.

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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  • bimbette — bimbo ► NOUN (pl. bimbos) informal, derogatory ▪ an attractive but unintelligent or frivolous young woman. DERIVATIVES bimbette noun. ORIGIN originally in the sense «fellow»: from Italian, little child …   English terms dictionary

  • bimbette — noun Etymology: bimbo + ette Date: 1982 slang an attractive but vacuous woman …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • bimbette — /bim bet /, n. bimbo (def. 3). * * * …   Universalium

  • bimbette — n. young woman bimbo (Derogatory Slang) …   English contemporary dictionary

  • bimbette — bim·bette …   English syllables

  • bimbette — bim•bette [[t]bɪmˈbɛt[/t]] n. cvs bimbo 1) • Etymology: 1980–85 …   From formal English to slang

  • bimbette — /bɪmˈbɛt/ (say bim bet) noun Colloquial an adolescent bimbo (def. 1) …  

  • bimbette — ¦bim¦bet noun ( s) Etymology: bimbo + ette : an attractive but empty headed woman …   Useful english dictionary

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  • Bimbo — For other uses, see Bimbo (disambiguation). Bimbo, in its popular English language usage, describes a woman who is physically attractive but is perceived to have a low intelligence or poor education. The term can also be used to describe a woman… …   Wikipedia

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