sgualdrina

Italian

Etymology

From a term meaning "woman of the gualdàna". Gualdàna is a historical term used for a brigade or group (brigata) of hunters who patrolled a gualdo "forest (archaic)".

Noun

sgualdrina f (plural sgualdrine)

1. trollop, slut

Further reading

Pianigiani, Ottorino (1907) “sgualdrina”, in Vocabolario etimologico della lingua italiana (in Italian), Rome: Albrighi & Segati