bluestockingnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈbluːˌstɒk.ɪŋ/us/ˈbluːˌstɑː.kɪŋ/old-fashionedan intelligent and well-educated woman who spends most of her time studying and is therefore not approved of by some men
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Intelligent people
- academic
- bookish
- bookworm
- brain
- bright spark
- clever
- clever dick/clogs idiom
- gnome
- intellectual
- laureate
- mage
- not be just a pretty face idiom
- pandit
- sage
- scholar
- smart cookie
- smart-arse
- swot
- wit
- wonk
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Examples from literature
- That, we fancy, is why we would rather read him on Catherine Trotter, the precursor of the bluestockings, than on any subject connected with the war.
- There are frequent bluestockings, it is true, but they have no influence with the public, and are showing themselves entirely ineffectual in forcing public opinion in this regard.
- They were all clever, and well-read, without a tinge of the bluestocking, and most of them were musical to the tips of their slender fingers.