Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(orig. US) a promiscuous young woman; also of homosexual men.

1902		T.A. Dorgan in Zwilling TAD Lex. (1993) 37: Here comes a couple o dem wise flusies.
1909		C.B. Chrysler White Slavery 30: Tell that floosie to cut out that yelping.
1911		L. Pound ‘A Second Word-List From Nebraska’ in DN III:vii 543: floozy, n. [...] A young woman to whom attention is paid. ‘John took his floozy to the baseball game.’ A term sometimes used of waitresses, or shopgirls, ‘From which floozy did you get that?’.
1913		B.T. Harvey ‘Word-List From The Northwest’ in DN IV:i 28: tommy, n. A girl. Also called [...] fluzy.
1914		Jackson & Hellyer Vocab. Criminal Sl. 36: fluzie [...] Current in the cosmopolitan demi-monde. A woman; a questionable female character.
1920		C. Sandburg ‘Honky Tonk in Cleveland, Ohio’ Smoke and Steel 33: Ship riveters talk with their feet / To the feet of floozies under the tables.
1926		Wood & Goddard Dict. Amer. Sl. 18: fluzie. A daughter of joy, a prostitute.
1927		(con. 1917) J. Stevens Mattock 187: Hard was swearing like fury at ‘the infernal war babies, the he-fluesy ninety-day wonders, such rotten officers they would even jim up service records’.
1934		‘J.M. Hall’ Anecdota Americana 181: Synonyms for male homosexuality [...] Fairy, pansy, queen, floosie, cock-socker, gobbler, queerie, dickie-licker, femmie, Nancy, fruit, lapper.
1936		(con. 1920s) Dos Passos Big Money in USA (1966) 996: If she ever let Mr. A out of her sight [...] some little floosey or other would get hold of him.
1937		J. Tully Bruiser 170: There’s more floozies in this town than cattle in the stockyard.
1938		E. Hoffman Price ‘Revolt of the Damned’ in Double-Action Gang June 🌐 Worley was worried. Rod and his flewzies.... [Ibid.] When that Slavonian flewzie got patched together, [etc.].
1940		S. Lister Mistral Hotel (1951) 50: I named the same old martini [...] after about a dozen floosies.
1946		Mezzrow & Wolfe Really the Blues 183: They were all wobbling around the floor with their floozies, so drunk they could hardly stand.
1956		R. Service ‘Local Lad’ in Rhymes for Reality (1965) 213: With floozies, fine food, bubbly drink, / He’ll go to hell I think.
1957		G. Kersh Fowlers End (2001) 123: A certain Harry Tidder—offspring of a flighty French floosie named Katherine.
1963		L.F. Freed Crime in S. Afr. 106: The words ‘limbo’, ‘chick’, ‘floozy’, ‘moll’ and ‘ploot’ are different names for a girl.
1963		B. Hecht Gaily, Gaily 51: She was a rotten floozy with hot pants who made me sick every time she pushed against me.
1963		N. Dunn Up the Junction 89: A road-floosie stood drinking, eyes rimmed dark and short shaggy hair.
1970		‘Red’ Rudensky Gonif 75: The Blue Goose which catered to hoods, gun-men, box-men, gamblers, floozies and even a few society girls.
1980		(con. 1940s) O. Manning Sum of Things 415: And have some Levantine floosie snap him up?
1984		Benjamin & Pearl Limericks Down Under 46: There was a young floosy of Boosey / Who could hardly be said to be choosey.
1989		A. Higgins ‘The Bird I Fancied’ in Helsingør Station and Other Departures 128: Jack [...] preferred to sit at the counter with his floozies around him.
1991		B. Hamper Rivethead (1992) 80: They were complete selfish assholes who didn’t give a shit about anything other than [...] emptyin’ their testes into the first shallow flooze who stumbled into their double vision.
1994		F. Mac Anna Ship Inspector 112: You’re the bitch whose husband ran off with a floosie.
1999		Guardian Guide 22–28 May 55: Marilyn Monroe, a floozy who with young stud Richard Allen plots to murder her husband.
2004		J. Ellroy ‘Hot-Prowl Rape-O’ in Destination: Morgue! (2004) 258: He was tenderly tended by [...] Megan More, cable-flick floozy supreme.
2008		T. Dorsey Atomic Lobster 175: I kept this floozy in Brooklyn. Regular tiger in the sack.
2012		(con. 1954) ‘Jack Tunney’ Tomato Can Comeback [ebook] That Garrick kid’s out with a different floozy every week.
2015		L. McInerney Glorious Heresies 182: ‘I didn’t think I’d have to spell out to you that you weren’t to give the floozie the idea O’Donovan was dead!’.
2021		P. Papathanasiou Stoning 127: ‘And what made her a floozy? Do you have the names of any of the men she’d been seeing?’.
2024		C. Stella Joey Piss Pot 173: ‘[L]ook at all those floozies with their asses on full display in those bikinis they wear’.