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bluestocking \BLOO-stock-ing\

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noun1. A woman with considerable scholarly, literary, or intellectual ability or interest.2. A member of a mid-18th-century London literary circle: Lady Montagu was a celebrated bluestocking....if you rolled the whole group into one girl, she would be what Norine said — a rich, assured, beautiful bluestocking. -  Mary McCarthy, The Group, 1963She reads such deep books—all about facts and figures: she'll be quite a blue-stocking by and by. - Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters, 1864-1866

Bluestocking Bloo Stock Ing Noun A Woman Considerable Scholarly Literary Intellectual