laddette

English

Noun

laddette (plural laddettes)

1. Alternative form of ladette.
   • 2001, George Alagiah, A Passage to Africa, Orion, published 2008, →ISBN:

     It was as true of the English in India who dressed for dinner, just as they would have done at home, in the pre-monsoon heat of the Raj as it is for the lager louts and laddettes who crave nothing more than an ersatz pub when they holiday in Ibiza.

   • 2013, Jessica Ringrose, Postfeminist Education?: Girls and the Sexual Politics of Schooling, Routledge, →ISBN, page 38:

     The news media have been heavily implicated in popularising fears over new categories of violent girls – explicitly classed figures, constructed as abject laddettes who are binge-drinkers and/or belong to violent gangs of dispossessed youth and wreak havoc on civic society by becoming too much like boys (Jackson, 2006).

   • 2022, Aina Tarabini, editor, Educational Transitions and Social Justice: Understanding Upper Secondary School Choices in Urban Contexts, Policy Press, →ISBN:

     Furthermore, all the interviewed laddettes who behaved like this consider their attitude to be ‘typically masculine’, as hegemonic female attitudes do not tend to challenge the dominant ethos at school.