personal ad glossary


Here's what they say in those personal love want ads, but what they really mean!

A LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

"WOMEN SEEKING MEN" Classifieds

CODE WORD

40-ish
Adventurer

Affectionate
Artist
Athletic
Average looking
Beautiful
Commitment-minded
Communication important
Contagious Smile
Educated
Emotionally Secure
Employed

Enjoys art and opera
Enjoys Nature
Exotic Beauty
Feminist
Financially Secure
Free spirit
Friendship first
Fun
Gentle
Good Listener
Humorous
Intuitive
In Transition

Light drinker
Looks younger
Loves Travel
Loves Animals
Mature

New-Age
Non-traditional
Old-fashioned
Open-minded
Outgoing
Passionate
Petite

Poet
Professional
Redhead
Reliable
Reubenesque
Romantic
Self-employed
Smart
Special
Spiritual
Stable
Tall, thin
Tan
Voluptuous
Weight proportional to height
Wants Soulmate
Widow
Writer
Young at heart

MEANING

48
Has had more partners than you ever will
Possessive
Unreliable
Flat chested
Ugly
Pathological liar
Pick out curtains, now!
Just try to get a word in edgewise
Bring your penicillin
College dropout
Medicated
Has part-time job stuffing envelopes at home
Snob
Bring your own granola
Would frighten a Martian
Fat; ball buster
One paycheck from the street
Substance user
Trying to live down reputation as slut
Annoying
Comatose
Borderline Autistic
Caustic
Your opinion doesn't count
Needs new sugar-daddy to pay the bills
Lush
If viewed from far away in bad light
If you're paying
Cat lady
Will not let you treat her like a farm animal in bed
All body hair, all the time
Ex-husband lives in the basement
Lights out, missionary position only
Desperate
Loud
Loud
Wouldn't stand out in a pack of Munchkins
Depressive Schizophrenic
Bitch
Shops on the Clairol aisle
Frumpy
Grossly Fat
Looks better by candle light
Jobless
Insipid
Rode the short schoolbus
Involved with a cult
Boring
Anorexic
Wrinkled
Very Fat
Hugely Fat
One step away from stalking
Nagged first husband to death
Pompous
Toothless crone


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