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/læˈdɛt/ · noun
(informal) A young woman who behaves in a laddish manner, namely being boisterous and loud and drinking to excess..
It could be argued that the rise of the socially conscious model reflects a very 2017 archetype: the “woke” young woman, who looks set to define femininity this decade in the same way that the lager-swilling ladette did in the 90s. It is also symptomatic of a broader cultural “awokening” that has reached the stuffiest institutions; even the royal family has recently relaxed its upper lip.
So the rise in drinking seems to centre on gen X women, or, to give us our proper title, ladettes.
Use ladette when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Ladette means (informal) A young woman who behaves in a laddish manner, namely being boisterous and loud and drinking to excess..
Common synonyms include geezerbird, tomboy.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
It could be argued that the rise of the socially conscious model reflects a very 2017 archetype: the “woke” young woman, who looks set to define femininity this decade in the same way that the lager-swilling ladette did in the 90s. It is also symptomatic of a broader cultural “awokening” that has reached the stuffiest institutions; even the royal family has recently relaxed its upper lip.
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