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floozie

/ˈfluː.zi/noun

floozie is a noun meaning “A vulgar or sexually promiscuous woman; a hussy or slattern” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-O-O-Z-I-E and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 76 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of floozie is floozies.

What does floozie mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A vulgar or sexually promiscuous woman; a hussy or slattern.

  2. 2

    A prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce floozie?

  • US /ˈfluː.zi/

Floozie has 2 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-floozie.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of floozie

  • floozies plural
  • floozy
  • floosy
  • floosie
  • floogy

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is floozie?

Floozie appears about once in every 76 million words in written English, the 275,970th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Floozie in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
GermanFlittchen (vulgar or sexually promiscuous woman), leichtes Mädchen, Bordsteinschwalbe (prostitute who attracts customers by walking…)
Portugueseoferecida (vulgar or sexually promiscuous woman)
Spanishramera (prostitute who attracts customers by walking…)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does floozie come from?

Corruption of flossy in the sense of showy.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).