> Droud is interesting. I must look up its derivation. It may be too obscure to pass my editor's muster. <

also, Larry Niven seems to have used droud in a completely different sense : a wire providing current directly to the pleasure center of the brain.

almost all of the words in the GD come from two source books; this one seems to be from Elster's There's a Word for It!, which he lists with the given def'n and without attribution. it's not in OED or W3; but my Old and Cheap unabridged gives "a codfish [Scot.]" -- I suppose this might have been extended to a fishwife sense.

anyway, I tried "oafish woman" in OneLook's reverse dictonary and got several pages worth of results.