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Catherine Eddowes

(April 14, 1842-September 30, 1888) The fourth recognized victim of Jack the Ripper. Called "Kate" by her friends.

Born in Wolverhampton, Kate was one of twelve children and was raised between there and London. Intelligent and bubbly throughout her life, Kate, who was five-foot-two with hazel eyes and auburn hair, took up with ex-soldier Thomas Conway at age 21 and had three children with him (Annie, born 1865; George, born 1868; and Thomas, born 1873). Kate and Conway's marriage was common law and unstable to its end in 1881, due to Conway's violence and Kate's drinking; Conway took the boys and Kate left with Annie.
Soon after leaving Conway, Kate moved to Whitechapel and met John Kelly, with whom she would live until her death. She and John were apparently quite happy together and went together from dosshouse to dosshouse, with Kate occasionally prostituting herself to bring money. Annie, meanwhile, married and regularly moved around to avoid her mother's scrounging. Although Kate had helped Annie through her first pregnancy, Annie could not stand more drunken begging from her mother.
Catherine Eddowes spent September 29 trying to secure money, in the morning pawning a pair of John's work boots for food money. That afternoon, she set off to ask her daughter for money (unaware that Annie and her husband had moved again), reassuring John that she wouldn't meet the Ripper.
Kate never reached Annie, but somehow found some money, enough to become roaring drunk; she was found at 8:30 PM surrounded by a crowd in the middle of Aldgate High Street, giving them a drunken impersonation of a fire engine, after which she curled up on the pavement to sleep.

The police took an unwilling Kate to Bishopsgate Station, where she was locked in a cell to sleep off her stupor. At 12:15, she was heard singing softly in the cell and was judged sober enough. After a scolding about her drinking, Kate left the station at about 1 AM. Meanwhile, the body of Elizabeth Stride had just been found in Berner Street, a mile away.
At 1:30 AM, a police officer saw Kate in Mitre Square (in the City of London itself) speaking with a man; when he returned fifteen minutes later, he found Kate's mutilated body.
Her throat was cut, "V" shapes cut into her cheeks and pointing to her eyes, her eyelids split vertically, the end of her nose cut off, her right cheek gashed. Her skirts were hiked up to her belly and she'd been disemboweled, with her uterus and one kidney taken away.
by Lorelili October 9, 2012
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britney spears

The sole member of a type of prostitute. Known to be sleazy, intellectually challenged, and often biased (once said of the war Iraq: "I, like, think that we should trust our president"). Has a "singing" voice that sounds like a whining fly (which usually sings superficial, inane lyrics and is often drowned out by monotone, obnoxious "music"), puts on performances that come from strip clubs, wears as little as possible and gets away with it, constantly contradicts herself (first saying that she's not a role model, then saying that she wants to be a role model that everyone can relate to (and almost nobody can)).

Sadly, despite her smutty reputation and that she's clearly no role model, many little kids look up to her. Her "beauty" is the true reason for her fame, not her "music"... her flaunting of her body rides the fine line between pride and exploitation. Apparantly thinking that showing off her rather revolting body, flipping the bird to audiances, being disrespectful to her public, and being a total ditz will earn her the older, more mature audiance that she's wanting, she does just that... and has failed at earning an older following.
Why? Why is this Britney Spears famous? Just for showing off her nude body, drinking underage, and being a total sleaze? If it (the music industry) was for the music and not for the glitz and glamour, then she'd be back in the brothels and strip clubs of Hickville Louisiana.
by Lorelili October 10, 2005
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pussy

1. A feline companion, a pussy cat. In short, a very fine animal.

2. A coward or a weakling (by extention of "pussycat", never mind that kitties can be quite viscious)

3. Slang for the vagina or vulva, depending on how it's used.

4. By extension of definition #3, sexual intercourse.
"I like your pussy! So cute!"

"I can't help it, I love pussies! I love my own pussy, especially!"

"May I nuzzle your pussy?"

"I like two pussies curled up together in bed. Heck, I like three pussies in bed."

Little boy: "I like your pussy!"
Little girl: (petting her kitten) "Thanks! You have a pretty cock!"

"Why does your pussy always chase bugs?"

"My pussy caught a bird! Get rid of it!"

"My pussy has worms, Doctor."

"Your pussy is so soft and fluffy!"

"Help! My pussy's stuck in a tree!"

"Your pussy scratched me!"

"My pussy has fleas."

"I'd pet your pussy, but I'm allergic to pussies."

"Awww, what a cute little pussy!"

"Gina, you should trim your pussy; there's fur all over the couch!"

"Look over there, mommie! Look at the size of that pussy!"

"It's a cold night; what's a guy gotta do to get pussy in bed?"

"My pussy was all warm and fluffy from lying in front of the fire."

"This pussy needs some good petting."

"Hi Doctor, my pussy needs to be checked."

"You're going to the doctor, pussy, so stop whining!"

"Stop being such a pussy and drink it!"

"Check out that babe! Nice pussy!"
by Lorelili December 7, 2009
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peasantry

From French "paysannerie", meaning "place of the country dwellers".

The class consisting of peasants and serfs (country people, mostly farm workers) in an agricultural society, in which peasants are the most common type of people (can be anywhere from fifty to ninety-five percent of the people).

Peasants are usually poor and live in villages and work farmland which practically belongs to them but is owned by lords.
Thanks to the incompetence of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, the peasantry were losing their land and suffered from inflated prices for bread.

The peasantry worked hard, but at least they knew their place and their allies. Appearances were minimal for farm workers, their operations were small scale; they had nothing to lose. The nobility had everything to lose.
by Lorelili December 14, 2010
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toga

An often understood garment from ancient Rome; the "toga" of a toga party is much scantier and flimsier than the toga that ancient Romans wore.

The toga was basically a large wrap worn over a tunic.
In the early days of the empire, the toga was worn by both sexes, but after 200 BC the toga was reserved for men while women were expected to wear the stola; a woman wearing a toga was generally a prostitute or an adultress, to distinguish them from "respectable" women.
by Lorelili November 7, 2012
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whore

An insulting term for a sexually loose woman, derived from the old English word hora (from the Indo-European root ka; meaning "to like, desire"), so "whore" could be translated as "pleasurer".

Also another word for a prostitute (strangely, while "whore" is considered a pejorative word in the English-speaking world, in Germany the organizations of prostitutes use the word Hure (whore) on purpose since they feel that prostitute is an unnecessary euphemism for something that doesn't need any euphemisms.)
Regular usage: "She's such a whore!"

Politically correct: "She's so sexually extroverted!"
by Lorelili February 19, 2007
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antisocial

Often confused with "asocial", which is very different; "asocial" means one who seeks to avoid society, somebody who refuses to or cannot socialize with others, like someone on the autism spectrum.

Antisocial means "against society" or "anti-society"; hostile and antagonistic toward society. This includes behavior that disrespects and violates the rights and feelings of others as well as the order and principles of society, behavior that includes theft, bullying, rape, deception, murder, and general criminal behavior.

An antisocial personality knows the difference between right and wrong but does not care; as long as they get what they want, they don't care who they have to walk over. Any means- manipulation, flattery, intimidation, cruelty, theft, murder- is perfectly justified to them
Robert Hare, revising his psychopathy checklist, says that all psychopaths are antisocial personalities but not all antisocial personalities are psychopaths. Similar to the autism spectrum, antisocial personalities range from obvious sociopaths to extreme (and well-hidden) psychopaths.
by Lorelili July 1, 2011
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