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bluestockings
noun as in pedant
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Weak match
noun as in egghead
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noun as in highbrow
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A design for a banqueting hall rather than a woman; or indeed a committee of Bluestockings might have wore it to advantage.
It was undoubtedly a male member of the profession who nicknamed these ladies bluestockings.
Yet the Jabberwocks were by no means bluestockings (a class of persons which Joan held in some dread).
Boys dislike bluestockings; and you're much too charming to wear them anyway.
And Mrs. Cholmondeley,—do you give her a place among the bluestockings?
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On this page you'll find 36 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to bluestockings, such as: bluestocking, bookworm, doctrinaire, egghead, pedagogue, and methodologist.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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