sgualdrina

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Italian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From a term meaning "woman of the gualdàna". Gualdàna is a historical term used for a brigade or group (brigata) of hunters who patrolled a gualdo "forest (archaic)".

Noun[edit]

sgualdrina f (plural sgualdrine)

  1. trollop, slut

Further reading[edit]

Pianigiani, Ottorino (1907) “sgualdrina”, in Vocabolario etimologico della lingua italiana (in Italian), Rome: Albrighi & Segati