Thesaurus / bluestockings
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synonyms for bluestockings
- bluestocking
- bookworm
- brain
- geek
- genius
- highbrow
- know-it-all
- scholar
- thinker
- longhair
- rocket scientist
- academic
- academician
- bluestocking
- brain
- egghead
- Einstein
- genius
- intelligentsia
- philosopher
- sage
- savant
- scholar
- thinker
- whiz
- illuminato
- literato
- longhair
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How to use bluestockings in a sentence
A design for a banqueting hall rather than a woman; or indeed a committee of Bluestockings might have wore it to advantage.
THE LADIESE. BARRINGTONIt was undoubtedly a male member of the profession who nicknamed these ladies bluestockings.
MAIN CURRENTS IN NINETEENTH CENTURY LITERATURE - 5. THE ROMANTIC SCHOOL IN FRANCEGEORG BRANDESYet the Jabberwocks were by no means bluestockings (a class of persons which Joan held in some dread).
WHY JOAN?ELEANOR MERCEIN KELLYBoys dislike bluestockings; and you're much too charming to wear them anyway.
THE BOOK OF SUSANLEE WILSON DODDAnd Mrs. Cholmondeley,—do you give her a place among the bluestockings?
GARRICK'S PUPILAUGUSTON FILON