bodice-rippery
nounEtymology
From bodice ripper + -y.
Definitions
The archetypical content of bodice rippers
The archetypical content of bodice rippers; violent or aggressive sex in romance fiction.
- She says that her first novel was born out of a profound love of medieval history, but I fear that what she really loves is historical romance, fantasy, and bodice-rippery.
- A tale of skulduggery, bodice rippery, and shoot-’em-up action unfolds, complete with help from a luscious mistress of disguise who could have stepped right out of a James Bond novel.
- While the genre has generally distanced itself from bodice-rippery, romance authors do continue to play with the look or feel or meaning of non-consensual sex and what’s sometimes called “dubious consent” or “dub-con” sex.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for bodice-rippery. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA