hoejabi
English edit
Etymology edit
Blend of hoe + hijabi. Attested online since at least 2011.
Noun edit
hoejabi (plural hoejabis)
- (slang) A sexually promiscuous woman who wears a hijab.
- 2016 August 21, Nexus, number 18, page 23:
- Some Muslims may argue that girls of our faith who don't wear a hijab aren't as religious. But I beg to differ. Hoejabis do exist — so never judge a book by its cover.
- 2017, Malcolm Nance, Christopher Sampson, Hacking ISIS: How to Destroy the Cyber Jihad, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 36:
- “Are you a Hijabi or a Hoejabi?” she wrote. “Hijabi: A Muslimah who is fully covered head to toe, as her Lord commanded. Hoejabi: A hybrid between a whore and a hijabi.”
- 2018, Romaissaa Benzizoune, How to Be a Hoejabi, The New York Times:
- Taken literally, the term “hoejabi” (not my coinage) refers to women who see themselves at the crossroads of being “hoes” and “hijabis.”