Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. a (young) woman; as v. go binting, to go on leave.

[1855		R.F. Burton Pers. Narr. Pilgrimage to Meccah I. v. 121: ‘Allah! upon Allah! O daughter!’ cry the by-standers, when the obstinate ‘bint’ of sixty years seizes their hands].
1918		Kia Ora Coo-ee 15 Mar. 5/3: It was a poem to some ‘bint’ named Violet.
1921		N&Q 12 Ser. IX 384: Binting (Go). To go on leave to Cairo to seek female society.
1924		(con. WWI) A.G. Pretty Gloss. of Sl. [...] in the A.I.F. 1921–1924 (rev. t/s) n.p.: bint. Girl (Arabic).
1925		(con. WWI) Fraser & Gibbons Soldier and Sailor Words 23: Bint: (Arabic) Girl. Woman. Also prostitute. In colloquial use among troops in Egypt.
c.1930		(ref. to late 19C) N. Kimball Amer. Madam (1981) 177: He had lived in England and sometimes called a girl a bint.
1936		Sydney Morn. Herald 25 July 13/6: ‘Bint,’ for instance, is of Arabic origin.
1945		J. Henderson Gunner Inglorious (1974) 140: First you’ve got to make sure that bint is a good cook.
1959		W. Hall Long and the Short and the Tall Act I: One of them bints in a long black hat and bits of lace.
1961		R.S. Close With Hooves of Brass 81: ‘Just wait until they hear how we roped Preacher into playing poker!’ ‘And that snooty bint too!’ added Ziff.
1964		J. Orton Entertaining Mr Sloane Act I: I generally spend holidays in places where bints have got rings through their noses.
1970		A. Sillitoe Start in Life (1979) 257: But tell me the stuff on this bint that’s got your heart going up and down like a yo-yo.
1977		(con. 1941) R. Beilby Gunner 4: What did it matter if she was an Egyptian bint? She was a good-looker.
1979		J. Morrow Confessions of Proinsias O’Toole 86: A sort of points system, awarding himself so many for each untouched dram, forsaken fag and, I suppose, unmolested bint.
1985		S. Berkoff West in Decadence and Other Plays (1985) 104: Well bloated and obscene from ‘evening in’ with favoured bints.
1991		R. Doyle Van (1998) 588: They were a right pair of bints, your women at the jacks door.
1999		K. Sampson Powder 435: He was doomed to be fucked up by funny, horny, sexy bints.
2000		N. Griffiths Grits 152: Tha other binty as well, er with the short hair an the boots, looks like a fuckin soldier like.
2002		D. Shaw ‘Dead Beard’ at www.asstr.org 🌐 I’m rubber gloving it down on the local beach because all the good looking bints are lying around with just their alan whickers on and giving every guy around a harry dash at their george bests.
2005		H. Mantel Beyond Black 70: I’m not on it all night, blah-bloody-blah to some bint.
2012		(con. 1943) G.S. Manson Coorparoo Blues [ebook] A Yank officer dropping off some bint after a big night.
2013		K. Sampson Killing Pool 11: The bint sitting there, all snooty-faced, looking right through us.
2015		L. McInerney Glorious Heresies 13: The bint had only gone and killed someone.
2016		Times 5 June 🌐 We could plot to take the bint out as Kev was a bust on it.
2021		J. Ellroy Widespread Panic 51: [A]ll these bints want to see themselves linked with me.
2023		R. Milward Man-Eating Typewriter 311: ‘Bumped into these sorts [...] Took the skinny bints out for dinner’.

2. (Aus.) a general term of abuse.

1953

K. Tennant Joyful Condemned 170: The senior warder is a lousy bint.