bluestocking

1. (usually derogatory) A scholarly, literary, or cultured woman.Examples: "Many of her ladyship’s letters were the most whimsical rhodomontades that ever blue-stocking penned."; "But Isabel was no blue-stocking; she was full of vivacity and life, and her conversation was sprightly and agreeable, even when turning upon those serious subjects."; "And let none cast in my teeth[…]the remark of Hippolytus in Euripides: “I detest a bluestocking. May there never be a woman in my house who knows more than is fitting for a woman to know.”"Synonyms: basbleuderogatoryusually

2. (historical) A member of an 18th-century Blue Stockings Society.historical

3. (historical) A member of the English parliament of 1653, more commonly called the Barebones Parliament.historical