Brewer's: Fast Girl

or Young Lady (A) is one who talks slang, assumes the airs of a knowing one, and has no respect for female delicacy and retirement. She is the ape of the fast young man.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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