roundheels
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From round + heels. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. the meaning behind it, not just compound
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Noun
roundheels (plural roundheels)
- (slang) A sexually promiscuous woman.
- 2001, Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train :
- “His wife was a roundheels anyway—”
- “Darling.” She took him by the braid-edged lapels. “Won’t you watch your language a little for the duration? I know Grannie’s horrified sometimes.”
- “Grannie wouldn’t know what a roundheels means,” Bruno said hoarsely.
- 2003, Dan Simmons, Hard Freeze :
- But now she ignored the display, nodded attentively, and tried to sound smart but not too smart, agreeable but not a total pushover, and—when Emilio flirted—appropriately slutty but not a complete roundheels.
- 2004, Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment :
- “Ah, that’d be Roundheels Molly?” said Corporal Scallot, looking up and grinning. “She’s sent many a lad on his way rejoicing.”
- 2001, Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train :
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roundheels