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It occurs to me that I should explain why I need these words, which is not to hurl them about in everyday use. (I'm not that sexist, I hope.) I'm writing a sequel to my first YA novel, SKY CARVER (shameless plug), and one of the characters uses colorful language. The setting is not contemporary or USA so I am using archaic terms. She (my character) has used oaf, dolt, lout, boor, and many other wonderful words that have slipped from common usage. But I'm suddenly in the situation where she needs to apply them to a woman.
There are some good suggestions here, though shrewishness is not the sense I'm looking for so much as oafishness (clumsy, lacking grace). Droud is interesting. I must look up its derivation. It may be too obscure to pass my editor's muster.
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A feminine form for oaf, lout, dolt...
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11/15/05 02:17 PM
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