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Promiscuous vs Hoodrat - What's the difference?

promiscuous | hoodrat |

As an adjective promiscuous

is made up of various disparate elements mixed together; of disorderly composition.

As a noun hoodrat is

a sexually promiscuous girl.

promiscuous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Made up of various disparate elements mixed together; of disorderly composition.
  • * 1667 , , Book 1, ll. 379-80
  • Came singly where he stood on the bare strand, / While the promiscuous croud stood yet aloof.
  • *
  • they had both been educated on plans at once narrow and promiscuous , first in an English family and afterwards in a Swiss family at Lausanne, their bachelor uncle and guardian trying in this way to remedy the disadvantages of their orphaned condition.
  • Made without careful choice; indiscriminate.
  • indiscriminate in choice of sexual partners.
  • (networking) The mode in which a gathers all network traffic instead of getting only the traffic intended for it.
  • Synonyms

    * See also * See also * (made up of various disparate elements) motley

    Derived terms

    * promiscuity * promiscuousness

    hoodrat

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang) A sexually promiscuous girl.
  • * Compton's Most Wanted'' - ''Hoodrat (song)
  • * 2 Live Crew'' - ''Hoochie Mama (song)
  • * The Hold Steady''- ''Your Little Hoodrat Friend (song)
  • *
  • * The 40-Year-Old Virgin'' (film)- ''"So what you just got to do is just get you a bunch of these hood rats run through them, just knock them out. Boom, boom, boom. And once you've done slayed like of them hood rats now you ready to go up to the upper echelon type ho. You know what I mean?" Jay
  • * Hood Rat''-''K'wan, K'wan Foye'' (book)- ''"a woman of questionable repute, one who has been known to "get around" in the 'hood."
  • Usage notes

    The term was largely used by hip-hop artists in the early 1990s.

    Synonyms

    * slut * hoe