bluestocking
- n a woman having literary or intellectual interests
- A bit bored with her bluestocking image, Nancy recently joked that "I really should have been a showgirl with my long legs.
- While collecting slops for her pigs from the kitchen of a bluestocking, Ann one day let slip that she wrote.
- Because Emerson was surrounded by people like volcanic bluestocking Margaret Fuller, semi-insane Greek Scholar Jones Very, zany Poet Ellery Channing and "this Gautama" Bronson .