jezebel:
(plural: ‘jezebels‘)
Jezebel (queen of ancient Israel)
(with a capital ‘J’) one of the queens of ancient Israel (she was known to be cruel and encouraged worship of idols);
(without a capital “j”) any shameless immoral/bad woman,
a modern day jezebel
e.g.
Some people wonder if there is the spirit of Jezebel, the queen of Israel, infuencing the modern day women.
Her employees think that she’s a jezebel… flirting with any male client she falls for.
Kris refuses to get married because he believes that all young women are jezebels of one sort or the other.
It is not uncommon to see a couple of news items that refer women of wrong doings labelled as jezebels.
For an article about Jezebel and Jezebel spirit, please click here, for a religious elaborate description of modern day jezebels, please click here, for a news article that discusses the modern day jezebels, please click here, and for an article that shows how this word is used to refer to women of ill-repute, please click here.
