bodice-rippery
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The archetypical content of bodice rippers; violent or aggressive sex in romance fiction.
Informal; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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."
Etymology
From bodice ripper + -y.