Why called broads

In slang why are women often called "broads"? Currently voted the best answer. This source says that "broad" may be suggestive of broad hips or may refer to "abroadwife" for a woman away from her husband. Not found outside Gmc. Slang extension to meaning "woman" may be suggestive of broad hips, but it also may trace to Amer. This gave the house a very cheerful appearance, as if it were constantly on a broad grin. And now I am going on to a review of the broad facts of the educational organization of our present world.

The embankment or road-bed was commenced by gigantic piling, and is very broad and substantial. Two broad dormer windows looked out toward the Gulf, and as far across it as a man's eye might reach. In addition to the idioms beginning with broad.

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Meaning "distended, expanded, spread apart" is from c. As a second element in compounds such as nationwide , worldwide meaning "extending through the whole of," is is from late Old English. As an adverb, Old English wide. Wide open "unguarded, exposed to attack" originally was in boxing, etc. Wide awake adj. Entries linking to broad wide adj.