abbess

From Middle English abbesse, from Old French abeesse (French abbesse), from Late Latin or Ecclesiastical Latin abbatissa, feminine of Latin abbas, abbatis (“abbot”).

Why laſt night, as Colonel Kill'em, Sir William Weezy, Lord Frederick Foretop, and I were careleſsly ſliding the Ranelagh round, picking our teeth, after a damn'd muzzy dinner at Boodle's, who ſhould trip by but an abbeſs, well known about town, with a ſmart little nun in her ſuite.

1770, Samuel Foote, The Lame Lover, a Comedy in Three Acts. […], London: […] Paul Vaillant; and sold by P[eter] Elmsly […]; and Robinson and Roberts, […], →OCLC, Act I, page 12:

So an old Abbess for the rattling Rakes, / A tempting dish of human nature makes, / And dresses up a luscious Maid: / I rather should have said, indeed, undresses, / To please a youth's unsanctified caresses.

1793, John Wolcot, A Poetical, Serious, and Possibly Impertinent, Epistle to the Pope, Ode II, page 33:

"I mean to inform you," answered the Oxonian, with a grin on his face, "that those three nymphs, who have so much dazzled your optics, are three nuns, and the plump female is Mother .... of great notoriety, but generally designated the Abbess of .... Her residence is at no great distance from one of the royal palaces; and she is distinguished for her bold ingenuous line of conduct in the profession which she has chosen to adopt; so much so, indeed, that she eclipses all her competitors in infamy."

1881, Pierce Egan, chapter 8, in Life in London, page 205:

Charles G[odfrey] Leland
w:Charles Godfrey Leland

John S[tephen] Farmer
w:John Stephen Farmer

(archaic, British slang) A woman who runs a brothel; a woman employed by a prostitute to find clients.


quail

en-verb

quail (third-person singular simple present quails, present participle quailing, simple past and past participle quailed)

quails (present singular third-person)
quailing (participle present)
quailed (participle past)
quailed (past)

From Middle English quaylen, from Middle Dutch queilen, quēlen, from Old Dutch *quelan, from Proto-West Germanic *kwelan, from Proto-Germanic *kwelaną (“to suffer”). Doublet of queal.

(intransitive) To waste away; to fade, to wither.

Death dvvels vvithin vs, and if gentle Peace / Diſcend not ſoone, our ſorrovves to ſurceaſe, / Latium (alreadie quaild) vvill be deſtroyd.

1594, Robert Garnier, translated by Thomas Kid [i.e., Thomas Kyd], Pompey the Great, His Faire Corneliaes Tragedie: […], London: […] [James Roberts] for Nicholas Ling, published 1595, →OCLC, act I, signature B, verso:

But when he meant to quaile and shake the Orbe, / He was as ratling Thunder.

c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii], page 365, column 2:

To tell the truth the prospect rather quailed him – wandering about in the gloomy corridors of a nunnery.

1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia: or, Buried Alive: A Novel, London; Boston, Mass.: Faber and Faber; republished in The Avignon Quintet, London: Faber, published 1992, page 358

(transitive, now rare) To daunt or frighten (someone).

Though George had stopped in his sentence, yet, his blood being up, he was not to be cowed by all the generations of Osborne; rallying instantly, he replied to the bullying look of his father, with another so indicative of resolution and defiance, that the elder man quailed in his turn, and looked away.

1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, “A Quarrel about an Heiress”, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC, page 183:

Mr. Utterson had already quailed at the name of Hyde; but when the stick was laid before him, he could doubt no longer: broken and battered as it was, he recognized it for one that he had himself presented many years before to Henry Jekyll.

1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Carew Murder Case”, in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 39:

Stouter hearts than a woman's have quailed in this terrible winter. Yours is tender and trusting, and needs a stronger one to lean on; so I have come to you now, with an offer of marriage.

1904, Seymour S. Tibbals, The Puritans or The Captain of Plymouth: A Comic Opera in Three Acts, [Franklin, Oh.]: Seymour S. Tibbals, →OCLC, act II, scene i, page 13:

The sun had shifted round, and the myriad windows of the Ministry of Truth, with the light no longer shining on them, looked grim as the loopholes of a fortress. His heart quailed before the enormous pyramidal shape. It was too strong, it could not be stormed.

1949 June 8, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 2, in Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC; republished [Australia]: Project Gutenberg of Australia, August 2001, part 1, page 27:

His colleagues quailed when, in 1986, he first sat on the court as a brash 50-year-old whose experience had been mostly as a combative government lawyer: a justice who, in that sanctum of columns and deep judicial silence, was suddenly firing questions like grapeshot.

2016 February 20, “Obituary: Antonin Scalia: Always right”, in The Economist:

(intransitive) To lose heart or courage; to be daunted or fearful.

треперя

to shrink or waver; to become fearful or doubtful

Therewith his ſturdie corage ſoone was quayd, / And all his ſences were with ſuddein dread diſmayd.

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 14, page 108:

"Sir, if you think your name is shamed by me, we had better part," said Mrs. Trevelyan, rising from her chair, and confronting him with a look before which his own almost quailed.

1869 May, Anthony Trollope, “Hard Words”, in He Knew He Was Right, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Strahan and Company, […], →OCLC, page 77:

And he commanded his soldiers […] to frighten them with fierce swords, but the hearts of the holy men did not quail, and they were unable to alter their words.

1928, E. A. Wallis Budge, transl., The Book of the Saints of the Ethiopian Church[:] A translation of the Ethiopic Synaxarium […] , volume 1, London: Cambridge University Press, page 220:

(intransitive) Of courage, faith, etc.: to slacken, to give way.


quail

en-noun

quail (countable and uncountable, plural quails or quail)

From Middle English quayle, quaile, quaille, from Anglo-Norman quaille, from Late Latin quaccola (“quail”).
(prostitute): So called because the quail was thought to be a very amorous bird.

Quail require little water, so there is no point to putting in a guzzler if there is any permanent water within travel range.

1954, Wildlife Review, numbers 75-83, page 44:

Any of various small game birds of the genera Coturnix, Anurophasis or Perdicula in the Old World family Phasianidae or of the New World family Odontophoridae.

Her's Agamemnon, an honeſt fellow inough and one that loues quailes, but hee has not ſo much braine as eare-wax, […]

c. 1602, William Shakespeare, The Famous Historie of Troylus and Cresseid. Excellently Expressing the Beginning of their Loues, with the Conceited Wooing of Pandarus, Prince of Licia, London: Imprinted by G[eorge] Eld for R[ichard] Bonian and H[enry] Walley, and are to be sold at the spred Eagle in Paules Church-yeard, ouer against the great North doore, published 1609, →OCLC, act V, scene 1:


dziwka

pl-noun

dziwka f (diminutive dziweczka, augmentative dziwa)

dziweczka (diminutive)
dziwa (augmentative)
dziwka (nominative singular)
dziwki (nominative plural)
dziwki (genitive singular)
dziwek (genitive plural)
dziwce (dative singular)
dziwkom (dative plural)
dziwkę (accusative singular)
dziwki (accusative plural)
dziwką (instrumental singular)
dziwkami (instrumental plural)
dziwce (locative singular)
dziwkach (locative plural)
dziwko (singular vocative)
dziwki (plural vocative)

Inherited from Old Polish dziéwka, from Proto-Slavic *děvъka. Doublet of dziewka (“girl”).


prostytutka

prostytutka (nominative singular)
prostytutki (nominative plural)
prostytutki (genitive singular)
prostytutek (genitive plural)
prostytutce (dative singular)
prostytutkom (dative plural)
prostytutkę (accusative singular)
prostytutki (accusative plural)
prostytutką (instrumental singular)
prostytutkami (instrumental plural)
prostytutce (locative singular)
prostytutkach (locative plural)
prostytutko (singular vocative)
prostytutki (plural vocative)

Borrowed from English prostitute, from French prostituée, from Latin prōstitūtus, past participle of prōstituō.

(colloquial, derogatory, figuratively) venal person


kurwa

kurwa f (diminutive kurewka, augmentative kurwisko)

kurewka (diminutive)
kurwisko (augmentative)
kurwa (nominative singular)
kurwy (nominative plural)
kurwy (genitive singular)
kurew (genitive plural)
kurw (genitive plural)
kurwie (dative singular)
kurwom (dative plural)
kurwę (accusative singular)
kurwy (accusative plural)
kurwą (instrumental singular)
kurwami (instrumental plural)
kurwie (locative singular)
kurwach (locative plural)
kurwo (singular vocative)
kurwy (plural vocative)

→ Yiddish: קורווע (kurve)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kury, from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ros (“loved”), from *keh₂-. Cognate with Latin cārus, Latvian kārs. For semantic development, compare English whore.

Ziemię pomierzył i głębokie morze, / Wie, jako wstają i zachodzą zorze, / Wiatrom rozumie, praktykuje komu — / A sam nie widzi, że ma kurwę w domu.

16th century, Jan Kochanowski, Na matematyka^(https://pl.wikisource.org/wiki/Na_matematyka_(Kochanowski,_1883)):

He measured Earth and deep seas, / He knows how dawns rise and go down, / He understand winds, he gives practices, / But he do not sees he has whore in home.

(offensive, vulgar) bitch, slut, whore; term of abuse for women


kurwa

hsb-noun

kurwa f (masculine kurwar, diminutive kurwička)

kurwar (masculine)
kurwička (diminutive)
kurwa (nominative singular)
kurwje (dual nominative)
kurwy (nominative plural)
kurwy (genitive singular)
kurwow (dual genitive)
kurwow (genitive plural)
kurwje (dative singular)
kurwomaj (dative dual)
kurwam (dative plural)
kurwu (accusative singular)
kurwje (accusative dual)
kurwy (accusative plural)
kurwu (instrumental singular)
kurwomaj (dual instrumental)
kurwami (instrumental plural)
kurwje (locative singular)
kurwomaj (dual locative)
kurwach (locative plural)
kurwa (singular vocative)
kurwje (dual vocative)
kurwy (plural vocative)


slit

From Old English slītan, from Proto-Germanic *slītaną (“to tear apart”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leyd- (“to tear, rend (cut apart), split apart”). Possibly cognate with Latin laed- (“to strike, hurt, injure”). Doublet of slite; also related to slice through French borrowing.

inh

(vulgar, slang, derogatory) A woman, usually a sexually loose woman; a prostitute.

slet

vulgar, slang: a derogatory name for a woman, usually a sexually loose woman; a prostitute


sell

en-verb

sell (third-person singular simple present sells, present participle selling, simple past and past participle sold)

sells (present singular third-person)
selling (participle present)
sold (participle past)
sold (past)

desc

Chinese Pidgin English: sellum, 些林 (Chinese spelling)

Sranan Tongo: seri

From Middle English sellen, from Old English sellan (“give; give up for money”), from Proto-West Germanic *salljan, from Proto-Germanic *saljaną, from Proto-Indo-European *selh₁-. Compare Danish sælge, Swedish sälja, Icelandic selja.

inh

buy when it snows(,/ and) sell when it goes

don't sell the skin till you have caught the bear

sell one's birthright for a mess of pottage

She sold her old car very quickly.

I'll sell you three books for a hundred dollars.

Sorry, I'm not prepared to sell.

If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 19:21:

No sooner has a [synthetic] drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one. These “legal highs” are sold for the few months it takes the authorities to identify and ban them, and then the cycle begins again.

2013 August 10, “A new prescription”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:

(transitive, ditransitive, intransitive) To transfer goods or provide services in exchange for money.

аҭира

to agree to transfer goods or provide services for payment

Then weaues
Other crosse-plots
New tricks for safety, are sought;
They thriue: When, bold,
Each tempt's th'other againe, and all are sold.

1605 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, Ben: Ionson His Volpone or The Foxe, [London]: […] [George Eld] for Thomas Thorppe, published 1607, →OCLC, (please specify the Internet Archive page):

House was jammed again that night, and we sold this crowd the same way.

1884, Mark Twain, chapter XXIII, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn:

Raul Meireles was the victim of the home side's hustling on this occasion giving the ball away to the impressive David Vaughan who slipped in Taylor-Fletcher. The striker sold Daniel Agger with the best dummy of the night before placing his shot past keeper Pepe Reina.

2011 January 12, Saj Chowdhury, “Blackpool 2-1 Liverpool”, in BBC:

(transitive, slang) To trick, cheat, or manipulate someone.

professional wrestling
professional wrestling

(transitive, professional wrestling, slang) To pretend that an opponent's blows or maneuvers are causing legitimate injury; to act.

He's selling!

He really sold in that match.

(Australia, slang, intransitive) To throw under the bus; to let down one's own team in an endeavour, especially in a sport or a game.


sell

"Of course a miracle may happen, and you may be a great painter, but you must confess the chances are a million to one against it. It'll be an awful sell if at the end you have to acknowledge you've made a hash of it."

1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 12”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:

What a sell for Lena!

1922, Katherine Mansfield, The Doll's House (Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, 354)

(colloquial, dated) An imposition, a cheat; a hoax; a disappointment; anything occasioning a loss of pride or dignity.


sell

From Old Saxon seill or Old Norse seil. Cognate with Dutch zeel (“rope”), German Seil (“rope”).

He picked up the sell from the straw-strewn barn-floor, snelly sneaked up behind her and sleekly slung it around her swire while scryingː "dee, dee ye fooking quhoreǃ".

(regional, obsolete) A rope (usually for tying up cattle, but can also mean any sort of rope).


broad

en-adj

broad (comparative broader, superlative broadest)

broader (comparative)
broadest (superlative)

thin

antonym(s) of “wide—regarding occupied space, width of an object”

skinny

antonym(s) of “wide—regarding body width”

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-der.?
Proto-Germanic *braidaz
Proto-West Germanic *braid
Old English brād
Middle English brood
English broad
From Middle English brood, brode, from Old English brād (“broad, flat, open, extended, spacious, wide, ample, copious”), from Proto-West Germanic *braid, from Proto-Germanic *braidaz (“broad”), of uncertain origin.
Cognate with Scots braid (“broad”), West Frisian breed (“broad”), Saterland Frisian breed (“broad”), Low German breed (“broad”), breet, Dutch breed (“broad”), German breit (“broad, wide”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian Bokmål bred (“broad”), Norwegian brei (“broad”), Icelandic breiður (“broad, wide”).

inh

not be able to hit the broad side of a barn

Lee: I wrote that line for you. Maeve: A bit broad, if you ask me.

2018 April 22, “Journey into Night” (39:17 from the start), in Westworld, season 2, episode 1, spoken by Maeve Millay and Lee Sizemore (Thandie Newton and Simon Quarterman), via HBO:

(Gaelic languages) Velarized, i.e. not palatalized.


broad

(UK) A shallow lake, one of a number of bodies of water in eastern Norfolk and Suffolk.

Edward H[enry] Knight
w:Edward H. Knight

A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders.

(UK, historical) A British gold coin worth 20 shillings, issued by the Commonwealth of England in 1656.


prostitute

en-verb

prostitute (third-person singular simple present prostitutes, present participle prostituting, simple past and past participle prostituted)

prostitutes (present singular third-person)
prostituting (participle present)
prostituted (participle past)
prostituted (past)

From Latin prōstitūtus, past participle of prōstituō, from prō̆ (“for, before”) + statuō (“to set up, to erect”).

af

Do not prostitute thy daughter.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Leviticus xix:29:

(transitive, reflexive) To offer (oneself or someone else) for sexual activity in exchange for money.

fè bòbò

reflexive: to perform sexual activity for money

sell one's body

to offer oneself for sexual activity for money

pimp

to offer another person for sexual activity for money


prostitute

en-adj

prostitute (comparative more prostitute, superlative most prostitute)

more prostitute (comparative)
most prostitute (superlative)

They rightly say that attacks against prostitute women are common and that it's only when five are murdered in one place that it starts to provoke debate.

2008, Niki Adams, Lisa Longstaff, The Guardian, letters, 23 February:

Taking part in promiscuous sexual activity, licentious; (later, chiefly as attributive use of noun) that is a prostitute.


prostitute

Any person (especially a woman) who has sexual intercourse or engages in other sexual activity for payment, especially as a means of livelihood.

Unfortunately, there is to my knowledge no visual evidence for the dress of the Roman prostitute, but the literary sources present us with a range of prostitute clothing (from rich accoutrements all the way down to nothing), […]

2012, Kelly Olson, Dress and the Roman Woman: Self-Presentation and Society, page 50:

A woman who has sexual intercourse or engages in other sexual activity for payment, especially as a means of livelihood.


娼

From 倡 (OC *tʰjaŋ, “performer”). Cognate with 唱 (OC *tʰjaŋs, “to sing”).

(historical) female performer of song and dance


妓

Bahnaric languages#North_Bahnaric
Cao Wei
Jin dynasty
Shuowen Jiezi
Waic languages

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kre, *ɡreʔ): semantic 女 + phonetic 支 (OC *kje).
Attested earliest in Shuowen Jiezi and Wèi-Jìn period's literature (possible pronunciations *kɨe or *gɨeX); a hypohetical OC form would be *kre (Schuessler, 2007).
Apparently loaned from Vietic (ancient 越 (yuè) in southern China). Compare Proto-Vietic *-keːʔ (“woman, female”) (whence Vietnamese cái (“female”) & gái (“girl, female”)), elsewhere in Mon-Khmer, Proto-Waic *krih girl", Proto-North-Bahnaric *kdri: "female". Alternatively, Wang (1982) relates this to 技 (jì, “skill”), yet this may be folk etymology (ibid.).
Schuessler also points to other foreign words which meant "woman, girl" yet referred to women of low social standing in ancient China; e.g. 嬖 (bì), 嬯 (tái) (ibid.).

Han compound

(Classical, historical) female entertainer; female performer of song and dance


窯

cave dwelling (common in the Loess Plateau, Northern China); yaodong


cop

en-verb

cop (third-person singular simple present cops, present participle copping, simple past and past participle copped)

cops (present singular third-person)
copping (participle present)
copped (participle past)
copped (past)

Uncertain. Perhaps from Middle English *coppen, *copen, from Old English copian (“to plunder; pillage; steal”); or possibly from Middle French caper (“to capture”), from Latin capiō (“to seize, grasp”); or possibly from Dutch kapen (“to seize, hijack”), from Old Frisian kāpia (“to buy”), whence Saterland Frisian koopje, North Frisian koope. Compare also Middle English copen (“to buy”), from Middle Dutch copen.

inh

(transitive, trainspotting, slang) To see and record a railway locomotive for the first time.


hook

en-verb

hook (third-person singular simple present hooks, present participle hooking, simple past and past participle hooked)

hooks (present singular third-person)
hooking (participle present)
hooked (participle past)
hooked (past)

sometimes in Northern England and Ireland, otherwise obsolete

From Middle English hoke, from Old English hōc, from Proto-West Germanic *hōk, from Proto-Germanic *hōkaz, variant of *hakô (“hook”), probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kog-, *keg-, *keng- (“peg, hook, claw”).
Cognates
Compare West Frisian heak, Dutch haak (“hook”)) (compare West Frisian/Dutch hoek (“hook, angle, corner”), Low German Hook, Huuk); also related to hake.

I had a cheap flat in the bad part of town, and I could watch the working girls hooking from my bedroom window.

(intransitive, slang) To engage in prostitution.


turn out

turn out (third-person singular simple present turns out, present participle turning out, simple past and past participle turned out)

turns out (present singular third-person)
turning out (participle present)
turned out (participle past)
turned out (past)

From Middle English turnen out, tornen out, equivalent to turn + out.
The slang and prison terms meaning "to turn into a prostitute, etc." are probably an ellipsis for turn (inside) out (“to flip someone's character or role”).

He then turned her out onto the streets of Chicago with a quota to meet: $500 for a night's work.

2008, Carolyn Maloney, Rumors of Our Progress Have Been Greatly Exaggerated:

Like I told you, I'm still turning this one bitch out. […] Sunday is three days away, if you ain't turned her out by then she ain't worth it.

2008, Joseph B. Haggerty, Sr., Shame: The Story of a Pimp, page 361:

The nigga that turned her out was named Derek “Sweets” D. I despised that pimping motherfucker with passion.

2012, Eyes . . . JB, If I Should Die Tonight: The Untold Stories, page 18:

(sex, transitive, slang) To convince a person (usually a woman) to become a prostitute.


baba

pl-noun

baba f (diminutive babka or babcia, augmentative babsko or babisko)

babka (diminutive)
babcia (diminutive)
babsko (augmentative)
babisko (augmentative)
baba (nominative singular)
baby (nominative plural)
baby (genitive singular)
bab (genitive plural)
babie (dative singular)
babom (dative plural)
babę (accusative singular)
baby (accusative plural)
babą (instrumental singular)
babami (instrumental plural)
babie (locative singular)
babach (locative plural)
babo (singular vocative)
baby (plural vocative)

nie miała baba kłopotu, kupiła sobie prosię

(obsolete, timber rafting) wooden block carved in the shape of a human head given to new rafters to kiss by rafters who are helping the new rafters with the rafting for the first time


whore

non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger

non-rhotic, dough-door merger, African-American Vernacular

nonstandard but traditional, several locations

(North American)

From Middle English hore, from Old English hōre, from Proto-Germanic *hōrǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ros (“loved”), from *keh₂- (“to wish; desire”). Cognate with Latin cārus, Polish kurwa, German Hure. The initial wh- is unetymological.

He cals her on a ſudden, all to naught; ſhe is a ſtrumpet, a light huswife, a bitch, an arrant whore.

1638, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Symptomes of Iealousie, Fear, Sorrow, Suspition, Strange Actions, Gestures, Outrages, Locking Up, Oathes, Trials, Lawes, &c.”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy. […], 5th edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [Robert Young, Miles Flesher, and Leonard Lichfield and William Turner] for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 3, section 3, member 2, subsection 1, page 610:

So after he fucks the shit out of me, he tells me I'm lying about his whore not being Brad.

2004, Dennis Cooper, The Sluts, page 250:

(vulgar, derogatory) A person who is sexually promiscuous; a slut.


lupa

la-noun

lupa f (genitive lupae); first declension

lupae (genitive)
lupa (nominative singular)
lupae (nominative plural)
lupae (genitive singular)
lupārum (genitive plural)
lupae (dative singular)
lupīs (dative plural)
lupābus (dative plural)
lupam (accusative singular)
lupās (accusative plural)
lupā (ablative singular)
lupīs (ablative plural)
lupābus (ablative plural)
lupa (singular vocative)
lupae (plural vocative)

Aromanian: lupã

Asturian: lloba

Catalan: lloba

French: louve

Friulian: love

Italian: lupa

Neapolitan: lopa

Occitan: loba

Portuguese: loba

Sicilian: lupa

Spanish: loba

Venetian: lova

The feminine version of lupus. The sense “prostitute” is either a comparison of the prostitutes' predation on men to the wolf's rapacity, as also in Isidore's (often fanciful) opinion, or a reference to the she-wolf's uncleanliness and promiscuity (often culturally conflated), parallelled in English bitch.


succubus

Alteration in Middle English (based on incubus m) of Late Latin succuba (“strumpet, especially a mythological fiend in female form who has intercourse with men in their sleep”), from Latin succubo (“to lie under”), from sub- (“under”) + cubare (“to lie down”).

der

Coordinate term: incubus

1977 Italo Calvino, The Castle of Crossed Destinies, Part 2, Chapter 5, 1969. Translated from Italian by William Weaver.
When the Sabbath is caught by the first ray of the rising sun, all the witches and the vampires, incubi and succubi, take flight, some transforming themselves into noctules, some into other bats, some into still other species of Chiroptera.

(mediaeval folklore) A female demon which comes to men, especially monks, in their dreams to seduce them and have sexual intercourse, drawing energy from the men to sustain themselves, often until the point of exhaustion or death.


tramp

en-verb

tramp (third-person singular simple present tramps, present participle tramping, simple past and past participle tramped)

tramps (present singular third-person)
tramping (participle present)
tramped (participle past)
tramped (past)

From Middle English trampen (“to walk heavily”), from Middle Low German trampen (“to stamp”) (trampeln (“to walk with heavy steps”), see trample), or Middle Dutch trampen (“to stamp”), from Proto-West Germanic *trampan (“to step”). Doublet of tremp.
Cognate to Dutch trampen (“to stamp, kick, step”), dialectal German trampen (“to step, walk, tread”), whence commoner German trampeln (“to trample”). Probably related to trap.

der

We tramped through the woods for hours before we found the main path again.

To walk for a long time (usually through difficult terrain).

мъкна се

to walk for a long time through difficult terrain


tom

From generic use of the proper name Tom.


mackerel

en-noun

mackerel (countable and uncountable, plural mackerel or mackerels)

Sylheti: ꠝꠦꠇꠞꠥꠟ (mexrul)

From Middle English mackerell, macrell, macrelle, makarell, makerel, makerell, makerelle, makrel, makrell, makyrelle, from Old French maquerel. Further origin unknown.

mackerel sky and mare's-tails make lofty ships carry low sails

mackerel sky and mare's-tails make tall ships carry low sails

Certain smaller edible fish, principally true mackerel and Spanish mackerel in family Scombridae, often speckled,

[…] you may buy land now as cheap as stinking mackerel.

c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:

I am living fast, to see the Time, when a Book that misses its Tide, shall be neglected, as the Moon by Day, or like Mackarel a Week after the Season.

1704, [Jonathan Swift], A Tale of a Tub. […], London: […] John Nutt, […], →OCLC, page 215:

Philander went into the next room[…]and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack.

1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

He sometimes pinches the maids till their arms are as many colours as a mackerel’s back.

1926, Hope Mirrlees, chapter 6, in Lud-in-the-Mist, London: Millennium, published 2000, page 68:

1982, Audre Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, Chapter 5, in Zami; Sister Outsider; Undersong, New York: Quality Paperback Book Club, 1993, p. 47,
“ […] if you ever so much as breathe a word about my stories, Sandman’s comin’ after you the very same minute to pluck out you eyes like a mackerel for soup.”

Scomber scombrus
Scomber scombrus#Translingual

typically Scomber scombrus in the British isles.

A true mackerel, any fish of tribe Scombrini (Scomber spp., Rastrelliger spp.)

Certain other similar small fish in families Carangidae, Gempylidae, and Hexagrammidae.


mackerel

From Middle English makerel, maquerel, from Old French maquerel, from Middle Dutch makelare, makelaer (“broker”) (> makelaar (“broker, peddler”)). See also French maquereau.

1483, William Caxton, Magnus Cato, quoted in James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century, vol. 2, publ. by John Russell Smith (1847), page 536.
[…] nyghe his hows dwellyd a maquerel or bawde […]

NETTING MACKEREL: THE PIMP DETAIL

1980, The Police Journal, Volume 53 (page 257) doi:10.1177/0032258X8005300305 (also available at Google books)

Hundreds of ‘night birds’ and their ‘mackerels’ and other vice-pushers were sent packing.

1981, Peter Gammond, Raymond Horricks, Big Bands, page 15:

2006, Paul Crowley, Message-ID: in humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare https://web.archive.org/web/20201001221812/https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare/VarPp2-HSO0/QuMJdNOwfisJ
A procurer or a pimp is a broker (or broker-between), a mackerel, or a pandar; the last is not necessarily-and, indeed, not usually-a professional.

You can't 'work' in a legal brothel without mackerel.

2009, Jeffery Klaehn, Roadblocks to Equality, →ISBN, page 118:

Perhaps, but my sources think the mackerel knew of this girl but she didn't know of him.


trap

trap (countable and uncountable, plural traps)

From Middle English trappe, from Old English træppe, treppe (“trap, snare”) (also in betræppan (“to trap”)) from Proto-West Germanic *trappjā (“trap, snare”), from Proto-West Germanic *trappjan (“to step”), from Proto-Germanic *trapjaną (“to tread, stamp”), from Proto-Indo-European *drebʰ- (“to step, trip, trample”).
Cognate with Dutch trap (“trap, snare”), German Low German Trapp (“trap”). Akin also to West Frisian traap (“stepping, treading, stairway”), German Treppe (“step, stair”), Old English træppan (“to step, tread”). Connection to "step" is "that upon which one steps". French trappe and Spanish trampa are ultimately borrowings from Germanic.

cog

A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for lack of an outlet.

ansa

place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for want of an outlet

The miners′ grievances centred on the issue of the compulsory purchase of miners′ licences and the harassment of raids by the licensing police, the ‘traps,’ in search of unlicensed miners.

1996, Judith Kapferer, Being All Equal: Identity, Difference and Australian Cultural Practice, page 84:

Diggers were angered by frequent licence inspections and harassment by 'the traps' (the goldfield police).

2006, Helen Calvert, Jenny Herbst, Ross Smith, Australia and the World: Thinking Historically, page 55:

(Australia, slang, historical) A mining license inspector during the Australian gold rush.


trap

en-verb

trap (third-person singular simple present traps, present participle trapping, simple past and past participle trapped)

traps (present singular third-person)
trapping (participle present)
trapped (participle past)
trapped (past)

Straight cis men persist in believing that my transition is all about them—tricking them, trapping them, ruining them.

2016, Stefan Horlacher, Transgender and Intersex: Theoretical, Practical, and Artistic Perspectives, Palgrave Macmillan US, page 92:

A "trap" is basically a trans girl or crossdresser who "tricks" or "traps" a straight male into getting aroused by them and then suddenly reveals their trans status.

2019, Rachel Anne Williams, Transgressive: A Trans Woman on Gender, Feminism, and Politics, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 32:

the Western pornography genre in which a straight man believes he is being seduced by a cis woman, and by the time he discovers she is trans has been “trapped” by his lust into having a sexual encounter with her.

2020, Natalie Boero, The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Body and Embodiment, Little, Brown and Company, pages 211–212:

(slang, informal, sometimes offensive) Of a 'trap': to trick a (heterosexual) man into having sex, by appearing to be a woman.


oğlan

head

oğlan (definite accusative oğlanı, plural oğlanlar)

oğlanı (accusative definite)
oğlanlar (plural)
oğlan (nominative singular)
oğlanlar (nominative plural)
oğlanı (accusative definite singular)
oğlanları (accusative definite plural)
oğlana (dative singular)
oğlanlara (dative plural)
oğlanda (locative singular)
oğlanlarda (locative plural)
oğlandan (ablative singular)
oğlanlardan (ablative plural)
oğlanın (genitive singular)
oğlanların (genitive plural)
oğlanım (first-person nominative singular)
oğlanlarım (first-person nominative singular)
oğlanın (nominative second-person singular)
oğlanların (nominative second-person singular)
oğlanı (nominative singular third-person)
oğlanları (nominative singular third-person)
oğlanımız (first-person nominative plural)
oğlanlarımız (first-person nominative plural)
oğlanınız (nominative plural second-person)
oğlanlarınız (nominative plural second-person)
oğlanları (nominative plural third-person)
oğlanımı (accusative definite first-person singular)
oğlanlarımı (accusative definite first-person singular)
oğlanını (accusative definite second-person singular)
oğlanlarını (accusative definite second-person singular)
oğlanını (accusative definite singular third-person)
oğlanlarını (accusative definite singular third-person)
oğlanımızı (accusative definite first-person plural)
oğlanlarımızı (accusative definite first-person plural)
oğlanınızı (accusative definite plural second-person)
oğlanlarınızı (accusative definite plural second-person)
oğlanlarını (accusative definite plural third-person)
oğlanıma (dative first-person singular)
oğlanlarıma (dative first-person singular)
oğlanına (dative second-person singular)
oğlanlarına (dative second-person singular)
oğlanına (dative singular third-person)
oğlanlarına (dative singular third-person)
oğlanımıza (dative first-person plural)
oğlanlarımıza (dative first-person plural)
oğlanınıza (dative plural second-person)
oğlanlarınıza (dative plural second-person)
oğlanlarına (dative plural third-person)
oğlanımda (first-person locative singular)
oğlanlarımda (first-person locative singular)
oğlanında (locative second-person singular)
oğlanlarında (locative second-person singular)
oğlanında (locative singular third-person)
oğlanlarında (locative singular third-person)
oğlanımızda (first-person locative plural)
oğlanlarımızda (first-person locative plural)
oğlanınızda (locative plural second-person)
oğlanlarınızda (locative plural second-person)
oğlanlarında (locative plural third-person)
oğlanımdan (ablative first-person singular)
oğlanlarımdan (ablative first-person singular)
oğlanından (ablative second-person singular)
oğlanlarından (ablative second-person singular)
oğlanından (ablative singular third-person)
oğlanlarından (ablative singular third-person)
oğlanımızdan (ablative first-person plural)
oğlanlarımızdan (ablative first-person plural)
oğlanınızdan (ablative plural second-person)
oğlanlarınızdan (ablative plural second-person)
oğlanlarından (ablative plural third-person)
oğlanımın (first-person genitive singular)
oğlanlarımın (first-person genitive singular)
oğlanının (genitive second-person singular)
oğlanlarının (genitive second-person singular)
oğlanının (genitive singular third-person)
oğlanlarının (genitive singular third-person)
oğlanımızın (first-person genitive plural)
oğlanlarımızın (first-person genitive plural)
oğlanınızın (genitive plural second-person)
oğlanlarınızın (genitive plural second-person)
oğlanlarının (genitive plural third-person)
oğlanım (first-person singular)
oğlanlarım (first-person singular)
oğlansın (second-person singular)
oğlanlarsın (second-person singular)
oğlan (singular third-person)
oğlandır (singular third-person)
oğlanlar (singular third-person)
oğlanlardır (singular third-person)
oğlanız (first-person plural)
oğlanlarız (first-person plural)
oğlansınız (plural second-person)
oğlanlarsınız (plural second-person)
oğlanlar (plural third-person)
oğlanlardır (plural third-person)

From Ottoman Turkish اوغلان (oğlan, “boy”), from Proto-Turkic *oglan.


hooker

In England there are Brighton Beach boats, Centre-board sloops, Pollywogs, Lough Erne yachts, Unas, New Brighton sailing-boats, yachts of the Norfolk Broads, Itchen, Clyde sailing and Keystone boats, Penzance luggers, Cobbles, Galways, Hookers and Pookhauns […]

1884, James Douglas Jerrold Kelley, American Yachts: Their Clubs and Races, page 161:

[T]he poor Flash is gone, and there is an end of it. Poor old hooker. Hey, Almayer? You made a voyage or two with me. Wasn’t she a sweet craft?

1896, Joseph Conrad, chapter II, in An Outcast of the Islands, London: T. Fisher Unwin […], →OCLC, part III, pages 182–183:

[…] for there was scarce one of us that thought the old hooker would weather so long and hard a blow. We were mighty fortunate to come through it so handily.

1914 October – 1916 July, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Mucker, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., published 31 October 1921, →OCLC:

(nautical, slang, derogatory) Any antiquated craft.

I once saw Hassett drop England opening batsman and compulsive hooker, Cyril Washbrook, twice in succession at deep fine leg.

1990, Ashes: Battles and Bellylaughs, Byron Bay: Swan Publishing, page 32:

(cricket) A batsman or batswoman adept at or fond of playing hook shots.

We regard the first seven seconds of a television commercial as the most critical or crucial in the whole unit — the "Do or Die Seven" — the "moment of decision" or the "hooker", if you will, when we must capture the attention of the viewer, get him involved in the action, […]

1966, Charles Anthony Wainwright, The Television Copywriter, page 39:

(informal, dated) Synonym of hook (“attention-grabbing element of a creative work”)


kurva

sh-noun

kȗrva f (Cyrillic spelling ку̑рва, augmentative kurvètina, relational adjective kùrvīnskī)

kȗrva (canonical feminine)
ку̑рва (Cyrillic)
kurvètina (augmentative)
kùrvīnskī (adjective relational)
kȗrva (nominative singular)
kurve (nominative plural)
kurve (genitive singular)
kȗrāva (genitive plural)
kȗrvī (genitive plural)
kurvi (dative singular)
kurvama (dative plural)
kurvu (accusative singular)
kurve (accusative plural)
kurvo (singular vocative)
kurve (plural vocative)
kurvi (locative singular)
kurvama (locative plural)
kurvom (instrumental singular)
kurvama (instrumental plural)

→ Balkan Romani: kùrva

→ Vlax Romani: kùrva

(vulgar, offensive) (regardless of gender) a worthless, despicable, unlikable person

(vulgar, offensive) bitch, a despicable, disagreeable, objectionable woman


madam

From Middle English madame, from Old French madame, from ma (“my”) + dame (“lady”), from post-classical Latin mea domina. Doublet of Madonna.

After she grew too old to work as a prostitute, she became a madam.

I sneaked into the house and stole my sister’s Hudson-seal fur coat out of the closet, then I beat it down to a whorehouse and sold it to the madam for $150.

1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Quit Foolin’ with That Comb”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 1 (1899–1923: A Nothin’ but a Child), page 54:

(slang) A woman who runs a brothel, particularly one that specializes in finding prostitutes for rich and important clients.


madam

nl-noun

madam f (plural madammen or madams, diminutive madammeke n or madammeken n or madammetje n)

madammen (plural)
madams (plural)
madammeke (diminutive neuter)
madammeken (diminutive neuter)
madammetje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: madam

→ Indonesian: madam


putain

→? English: poontang, pootang

Inherited from Old French putain, originally the oblique case of pute (“dirty woman”) formed with the suffix -ain, from Vulgar Latin pūtta, from Latin pūta (“girl”). Compare with salope, Italian puttana, Spanish puta.


mac

(colloquial, computing) Clipping of Macintosh.


on the game

UK late-19th century. However, the game as a euphemism for sexual activity dates to at least Troilus and Cressida (1602): "Set them down / For sluttish spoils of opportunity / And daughters of the game." Compare with the similar euphemism sport.

Oh please go on the game. It's a steady job and you'd be working from home.

1986 January 9, Ben Elton, Richard Curtis, Bells (Blackadder II), episode 1, spoken by Kate's Father (Edward Jewesbury):

What's he want it for anyway? Don't tell me he's going on the game.

1990 November 18, Andrew Davies, Michael Dobbs, House of Cards, season 1, episode 1:

(UK, idiomatic, slang, euphemistic) Working as a prostitute.


purveyor

From Anglo-Norman purveour, from Old French porveor, agent noun from porveoir. See purvey. Doublet of provedore and proveditor.

But a Prince is no more to be his own caterer in his Love, than in his food; therefore Aurengezebe has ever in waiting two purveyors for his dishes, and his wenches for his retired hours

1709 August 6 (Gregorian calendar), Isaac Bickerstaff [et al., pseudonyms; Joseph Addison], “Tuesday, July 26, 1709”, in The Tatler, number 46; republished in [Richard Steele], editor, The Tatler, […], London stereotype edition, volume I, London: I. Walker and Co.; […], 1822, →OCLC:


pimp

Origin unknown. Perhaps from French pimpant (“smart, sparkish”) or German Pimpf (“boy, youth, young squirt”). The Old English near-synonym was rendered by Old English forspennend (literally “solicitor”).

unk

unknown

ncog

A fella looking dapper / And he's sittin' with a slapper / Then I see it's a pimp / And his crack whore

2006, Lily Allen, Iyiola Babalola, Darren Lewis, Tommy McCook (lyrics and music), “LDN”, in Alright, Still, performed by Lily Allen:

All my life, been hustling / And tonight is my appraisal / 'Cause I'm a hooker selling songs / And my pimp's a record label

2018, Brendon Urie, Michael Angelakos, Sam Hollander, Morgan Kibby, Jake Sinclair, Dillon Francis (lyrics and music), “Hey Look Ma, I Made It”, in Pray for the Wicked, performed by Panic! at the Disco:

Someone who solicits customers for prostitution and acts as manager for a group of prostitutes; a pander.


hora

hora (indefinite nominative singular)
horan (definite nominative singular)
horor (indefinite nominative plural)
hororna (definite nominative plural)
horas (genitive indefinite singular)
horans (definite genitive singular)
horors (genitive indefinite plural)
horornas (definite genitive plural)

From Old Swedish hōra, from Old Norse hóra, from Proto-Germanic *hōrǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ros (“dear, loved”). Compare Danish hore, English whore, Dutch hoer, German Hure. Doublet of kär.

inh

(derogatory) a whore (promiscuous person, slut)


jazz

en-noun

jazz (usually uncountable, plural jazzes)

→ Arabic: جَاز (jāz)

→ Armenian: ջազ (ǰaz)

→ Bulgarian: джаз (džaz)

→ Catalan: jazz, džez

→ Czech: jazz

→ Danish: jazz

→ Dutch: jazz

→ Esperanto: ĵazo

→ Estonian: džäss

→ Faroese: djassur

→ Finnish: jazz, jatsi

→ French: jazz

→ Georgian: ჯაზი (ǯazi)

→ German: Jazz

→ Greek: τζαζ (tzaz)

desc

→ Hebrew: ג׳ז, ג׳אז

→ Hebrew: ג׳ז, ג׳אז

→ Hungarian: dzsessz, jazz

→ Icelandic: djass, jass

→ Italian: jazz

→ Japanese: ジャズ (jazu)

→ Korean: 재즈 (jaejeu)

→ Latvian: džezs

→ Lithuanian: džiazas

→ Macedonian: џез (džez)

→ Norwegian Bokmål: jazz

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: jazz

→ Persian: جاز

→ Polish: jazz, dżez

→ Portuguese: jazz

→ Romanian: jazz

→ Russian: джаз (džaz)

→ Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic script: џе̏з

Latin script: džȅz

→ Slovak: džez

→ Slovene: džẹ̑z

→ Spanish: jazz

→ Swedish: jazz

→ Tagalog: dyas

→ Thai: แจ๊ส (jɛ́ɛt)

→ Turkish: caz

→ Ukrainian: джаз (džaz)

→ Yiddish: דזשאַז (dzhaz)

Unknown. First attested around 1912 in a discussion of baseball; attested in reference to music around 1915. Numerous references suggest that the term may be connected to jasm and jism.

You dare to bring your jazz songs into my house!

1927, Samson Raphaelson, Alfred A. Cohn, The Jazz Singer, spoken by Jakie Rabinowitz (Al Jolson):

You all look out now, here I come, everybody step aside, I’m gonna show you where from! I'm gonna blow in this horn and make you know that jazz is the king and let it be so!

1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Not too Far Tangent”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 1 (1899–1923: A Nothin’ but a Child), page 30:

You see, the kids, they listen to the rap music which gives them the brain damage. With their hippin', and the hoppin', and the bippin', and the boppin', so they don't know what the jazz…is all about! You see, jazz is like the Jello Pudding Pop—no, actually, it's more like Kodak film—no, actually, jazz is like the New Coke: it'll be around forever, heh heh.

1995, Mike Reiss, Al Jean, “'Round Springfield”, in The Simpsons, season 6, episode 22, spoken by Bill Cosby:

(music) A musical art form rooted in West African cultural and musical expression and in the African American blues tradition, with diverse influences over time, commonly characterized by blue notes, syncopation, swing, call and response, polyrhythms and improvisation.


jazz

en-verb

jazz (third-person singular simple present jazzes, present participle jazzing, simple past and past participle jazzed)

jazzes (present singular third-person)
jazzing (participle present)
jazzed (participle past)
jazzed (past)

‘Jazzing?’ Temple whispered […]. ‘Yes, putty-face!’ the woman said. ‘How do you suppose I paid that lawyer?’

1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage, published 1993, page 59:

(intransitive, US slang, dated) To have sex for money, to prostitute oneself.

‘Well, if you're going to jazz about the way you do, I suppose you'll need rouge at your age.’

1958, Doris Lessing, A Ripple From the Storm, HarperPerennial, published 1995, page 119:

(intransitive, slang) To move (around/about) in a lively or frivolous manner; to fool around.


prostitution

en-noun

prostitution (usually uncountable, plural prostitutions)

(by extension) Engaging in sexual activity with another person in exchange for goods (not necessarily money) or services.


prostitution

head

prostitution c (singular definite prostitutionen, not used in plural form)

prostitutionen (definite singular)
prostitution (indefinite nominative singular)
prostitutionen (definite nominative singular)
prostitutions (genitive indefinite singular)
prostitutionens (definite genitive singular)


cyẅres

cywresau (plural)
cyẅres (mutation mutation-radical)
gyẅres (mutation mutation-soft)
nghyẅres (mutation mutation-nasal)
chyẅres (mutation mutation-aspirate)


wench

Sranan Tongo: wenke

The noun is derived from Middle English wench, wenche (“female baby; girl (especially unmarried); maiden, young woman; bondwoman; serving maid; beloved, sweetheart; concubine, mistress; harlot, prostitute”) [and other forms], a shortened form of Middle English wenchel (“girl; maiden; child”), from Old English wenċel, winċel (“child; servant; slave”), from Proto-Germanic *wankilą, from Proto-Germanic *wankijaną (“to sway; waver”). The English word is cognate with Old High German wenken (“to waver; to give way, yield”), wankōn (“to totter”).
The verb is derived from the noun.

cog

When they had kyndled a fyre in the myddes of the palys / and were sett doune to gedder / Peter alsoo sate doune amonge them. And won off the wenches / as he sate / beholde him by the light and sett goode eyesight on him / and sayde: This same was also with hym. Then he denyed hym sayinge: Woman I knowe hym nott.

1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, The Gospell off S. Luke xxij:[55–57], folios cxiiii, recto – cxiiii, verso:

"I fear there is a chase; I think I hear three or four galloping together; I am sure I hear more horses than one." / "Pooh, pooh, it is the wench of the house that is clattering to the well in her pattens; […]."

1819, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter V, in Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volume I (The Bride of Lammermoor), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 150:

[W]orking for Colonel Boone a the time—and two more men whose names I disremember now, and a nigger wench we had for a cook. […] So I got onto one of the ponies and led the others down to the spring near camp to water them while the wench was a getting breakfast, and some o' the rest o' the outfit was a fixin the saddles and greasing the wagon.

1881, Henry Inman, “A Legend of Pawnee Rock; or How the Life of an Old Trapper was Saved by a Bird”, in Stories of the Old Santa Fe Trail, Kansas City, Mo.: Ramsey, Millett & Hudson, pages 89 and 91:

(archaic) A woman servant; a maidservant.

2 [Friar Bernardine]. Thou haſt committed— / Bar[abas]. Fornication? but that was in another Country; And beſides, the Wench is dead.

c. 1589–1590 (date written), Christopher Marlo[we], edited by Tho[mas] Heywood, The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Iew of Malta. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Nicholas Vavasour, […], published 1633, →OCLC, Act IV, signature G2, verso:

Whilſt Men have theſe Ambitious Fancies, / And wanton Wenches read Romances, / Our Sex will—What? out with it: Lye: / And Theirs in equal Strains reply.

1702, Mat[thew] Prior, “To a Young Gentleman in Love. A Tale.”, in Poems on Several Occasions, 2nd edition, London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, […], published 1709, →OCLC, page 103:

It must not thought a digression from my intended speculation, to talk of bawds in a discourse upon wenches; for a woman of the town is not thoroughly and properly such, without having gone through the education of one of these houses.

1712 January 15 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “FRIDAY, January 4, 1711–1712”, in The Spectator, number 266; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume III, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC, page 329:

(archaic) A promiscuous woman; a mistress (“other woman in an extramarital relationship”).

Nancy Basset, 28, likely wench, mulatto / Proved to be free. / Certified free as per General Birch Certificate. / / Patience Jackson, 23, very likely wench, mulatto / Says she was born free Rhode Island. / Certified free as per General Birch Certificate.

1776–1787, Carmelita Robertson, Elizabeth E. D. Eve, Black Loyalists of Nova Scotia: Tracing the History of Tracadie Loyalists, 1776–87 (Curatorial Report; no. 91), Halifax, N.S.: History Section, Nova Scotia Museum, Department of Tourism & Culture, published 2000, →ISBN:

Now, I bought a gal once, when I was in the trade,—a tight, likely wench she was, too, and quite considerable smart— [...]

1851 June – 1852 April, Harriet Beecher Stowe, “[Eliza’s Escape]”, in Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly, volume I, Boston, Mass.: John P[unchard] Jewett & Company; Cleveland, Oh.: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, published 20 March 1852, →OCLC, page 100:

A colored girl […] was fined ten dollars in the Freedman's Court yesterday, for being drunk and disorderly. Not having the money in her possession, she requested that a guard be sent with her to her residence to procure it. The Provost allowed a guard to wait on the wench, who, as soon as she found herself inside of her own door, locked it, and left the poor guard outside without the money. He returned to court without either the wench or fine.

1866 March 2, “Sharp Wench”, in The Appeal, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Minn.: Parker, Burgett & Hardy, →OCLC, page 3; quoted in Hannah Rosen, “Notes”, in Terror in the Heart of Freedom: Citizenship, Sexual Violence, and the Meaning of Race in the Postemancipation South (Gender and American Culture), Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2009, →ISBN, footnote 186, page 282:

So complete was this illusion, claims [Eric] Lott, that many audience members, including Mark Twain's mother, believed they were seeing authentic, biologically black performers on New York stages. Of course, wench characters seem to especially test the bounds of authentic performance. Played by men, wenches were nonetheless read by audiences as beautiful women: [...] [E]xtant photographs and engravings of wench performers do not always represent them as blacked up, […] In antebellum minstrel shows, wench songs were most often sung about mulatto women rather than by them.

2014, Kirsten Pullen, “Light Egyptian: Lena Horne and the Representation of Black Femininity”, in Like a Natural Woman: Spectacular Female Performance in Classical Hollywood, New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, pages 106–107:

(US, archaic or historical) A black woman (of any age), especially if in a condition of servitude.


slut

en-verb

slut (third-person singular simple present sluts, present participle slutting, simple past and past participle slutted)

sluts (present singular third-person)
slutting (participle present)
slutted (participle past)
slutted (past)

From Middle English slutt, slutte, slute (“a dirty or slovenly person, usually a woman, scullery maid; messy animal to prepare as food; slush, mud”), probably from Old English *slȳte (“sleet”), from Proto-West Germanic *slautijā, from Proto-Germanic *slautijǭ (“sleet, hail”), related to Proto-West Germanic *slaut (“puddle, ditch”). Compare Dutch slodder and slet, dialectal Swedish slata (“idle woman”), Norwegian sludd (“sleet”), and the dialectal Norwegian slutr (“sleet, impure liquid”). Doublet of sleet.

cog

Shirley, you slut around here again, and I swear to God I'll break your neck.

The radicals are reluctant to admit that slutting around is a phase that most gay men go through, but not a permanent — what's that phrase? Oh, yes — "lifestyle choice."

2001 January, Dan Savage, “Sluts Like Us”, in Out, volume 9, number 7, page 37:

(slang, vulgar, usually with around) To visit places frequented by men, with the intention of engaging in sexual intercourse by means of flirting.


torsk

torsk (indefinite nominative singular)
torsken (definite nominative singular)
torskar (indefinite nominative plural)
torskarna (definite nominative plural)
torsks (genitive indefinite singular)
torskens (definite genitive singular)
torskars (genitive indefinite plural)
torskarnas (definite genitive plural)

From Old Swedish þorsker, from Old Norse þorskr, from Proto-Germanic *þurskaz.

(slang) a person who visits prostitutes; a john


бабочка

ru-noun+

ба́бочка • (bábočka) f anim or f inan (genitive ба́бочки, nominative plural ба́бочки, genitive plural ба́бочек)

ба́бочка (canonical)
bábočka (romanization)
ба́бочки (genitive)
ба́бочки (nominative plural)
ба́бочек (genitive plural)
ба́бочка (nominative singular)
ба́бочки (nominative plural)
ба́бочки (genitive singular)
ба́бочек (genitive plural)
ба́бочке (dative singular)
ба́бочкам (dative plural)
ба́бочку (accusative singular)
ба́бочек (accusative plural)
ба́бочки (accusative plural)
ба́бочкой (instrumental singular)
ба́бочкою (instrumental singular)
ба́бочками (instrumental plural)
ба́бочке (prepositional singular)
ба́бочках (plural prepositional)

Ru-бабочка.ogg

From ба́бка (bábka, “grandmother, old woman”) + -ка (-ka), originally a diminutive; from the folk belief that spirits of the dead live on as butterflies.


trick

From Middle English trikke, from Old Northern French trique (related to Old French trichier (“to defraud, act dishonestly, conceal, deceive, cheat”); > modern French tricher), itself possibly from Middle High German trechen (“to launch a shot at, play a trick on”), or one of its derivatives (e.g. Middle High German ūftrechen (“to do something to someone, hurt someone”), vertrechen (“to conceal, get over on someone”), zuotrechen (“to obtain falsely or deceitfully, wangle, finagle”), etc.); yet the Old French verb is equally likely to be derived from Vulgar Latin *triccāre, from Late Latin tricāre, from Latin trīcor, trīcārī (“dodge, search for detours; haggle, quibble”).
The term has been connected to Middle Dutch treck, trec (“draw, line, desire, game move, cord, stratagem, ruse, trick”), from Middle Dutch trekken, trēken (“to pull, place, put, move”), from Old Dutch *trekken, *trekan (“to move, drag”), from Proto-Germanic *trakjaną, *trekaną (“to drag, scrape, pull”), from Proto-Indo-European *dreg- (“to drag, scrape”). If they are related, trick would be cognate with Low German trekken, Middle High German trecken, trechen, Danish trække, and Old Frisian trekka, Romanian truc and other Romance languages.
Compare track, treachery, trig, and trigger.

der

turn a trick

turn tricks

Perhaps the most important thing a prostitute learns is how to "manage" the client; how to con him into spending more money than he planned. Learning how to perform tricks takes only a few minutes. Learning how to "hustle" the client takes longer.

1988, John H. Lindquist, Misdemeanor Crime: Trivial Criminal Pursuit, page 43:

"How did you get into all this?" "I started doing tricks when I was young and I don't mean the magic circle. I learned about sex from an early age. There was nothing else to do in Pitsea except heavy petting and getting F grades at school."

2010, Richard Gill, Paloma Azul, page 139:

When he later asked her to strip and perform tricks for him, she refused, and he chased her away. She had similar experiences with other men until she eventually fell into prostitution: […]

2019, Julie S. Draskoczy, Belomor: Criminality and Creativity in Stalin’s Gulag:

(slang) A sex act, chiefly one performed for payment; an act of prostitution.

As the businessman rounded the corner, she thought, "Here comes another trick."

Ten minutes after she got down she broke luck. A white trick in a thirty-seven Buick picked her up. I timed her. She had racehorse speed.

2011, Iceberg Slim, Pimp: The Story of My Life, page 99:

(slang) A customer or client of a prostitute.


trick

en-verb

trick (third-person singular simple present tricks, present participle tricking, simple past and past participle tricked)

tricks (present singular third-person)
tricking (participle present)
tricked (participle past)
tricked (past)

1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
[…] and suddenly it was Maryellin, he & I in the bed. The guy was tall, lean & hard. Absolutely lovely body. For me, it was like my old tricking days.

Asked whether one possible way for lesbians to increase sexual satisfaction within a relationship would be to "trick" outside it, Pearlman said that this could be a "terrific turn-on" if done right, but that she generally wouldn't recommend it because of the high risk of jealousy and breakups.

1985 April 20, Betsy Duren, “Women's Studies Conference: Sex and Culture”, in Gay Community News, page 7:

To engage in prostitution or casual sex.


john

From the male given name John (q.v.), whose ubiquity led to extensive use of the name in generic contexts. Its use for toilets derives from John and Cousin John, which both probably relate to jacques and jakes, used in equivalent senses by the British and Irish.

The girls sat there while the johns (customers) moped around giving them the once-over.

1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Not too Far Tangent”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 1 (1899–1923: A Nothin’ but a Child), page 22:

In the first part of the video, Thad sucks the john's cock and takes a load in his mouth.

2004, Dennis Cooper, The Sluts, page 233:

In-calls, where the john comes to the prostitute’s residence, are prohibited.

2013, McLachlin CJ, Canada (Attorney General) v. Bedford (2013 SCC 72), para. 62

(slang, US) A device or place to urinate and defecate: now usually a toilet or lavatory, but also (dated) a chamber pot or outhouse.


bunter

Glavine was a renowned bunter of the ball.


bunter

(archaic) A woman who picks up rags in the streets.

(archaic, by extension) A low, vulgar woman.


ponce

Uncertain, but probably an aphetic form of French alphonse (“kept man”), from the male given name Alphonse. Also sometimes connected to pounce or French pensionnaire (“pensioner, person living without working”).

ncog

A man living off another's earnings, especially a woman's.

Synonym of pimp, especially one hired by a prostitute as a tout, bodyguard, and driver.

pimp

Thanks Don, see you Don, off to sunny Spain now Don, fuck off Don. Lying in your pool like a fat blob laughing at me, you think I'm gonna have that? You really think I'm gonna have that, ya ponce.

2000, Sexy Beast (motion picture), spoken by Don Logan (Ben Kingsley):

Synonym of poof: an effeminate gay man; any similarly effeminate man.


ponce

en-verb

ponce (third-person singular simple present ponces, present participle poncing, simple past and past participle ponced)

ponces (present singular third-person)
poncing (participle present)
ponced (participle past)
ponced (past)


punter

He had stolen 'trannies' (transistor radios) and hub caps from cars outside the main hotels in Glasgow, turning the collection into money through dealing with a 'punter' at Charing Cross.

2013, James Patrick, A Glasgow Gang Observed:

(Scotland) A person who trades with a gang but is not a gang member.


flap

flap (third-person singular simple present flaps, present participle flapping, simple past and past participle flapped)

flaps (present singular third-person)
flapping (participle present)
flapped (participle past)
flapped (past)

From Middle English flappen (“to flap, clap, slap, strike”), related to Dutch flappen (“to flap”), German Low German flappen (“to flap”), German flappen (“to flap”), Dutch flabberen (“to flit, flap”). Probably ultimately imitative.

onomatopoeic

imitative

The flag flapped in the breeze.

Former Turkey goalkeeper Rustu Recber flapped at his first Delap throw but was given a soft free-kick by referee Antony Gautier.

2011 September 29, Tom Rostance, “Stoke 2 - 1 Besiktas”, in BBC Sport:

(intransitive) To move loosely back and forth.


pug

Origin unknown, possibly related to West Flemish pugge (“(adjective) small; (noun) short person; pet name derived from the first name Pugge”); though it is uncertain whether sense 1 (“senses relating to someone or something small”) and sense 2 (“senses relating to people”) are derived from the same source.
Sense 1.8 (“small demon”) was probably influenced by, though not a variant of, puck.

pentu

any of various animals, such as a ferret, hare, squirrel, or young salmon

[Ulysses] ty'd his deafen'd Sailors (vvhile he paſs'd / The dreadful Lady's Lodgings) to the Maſt, / And rather venture drovvning, than to vvrong / The Sea-pugs chaſte Ears vvith a bavvdy Song: […]

a. 1681 (date written), Samuel Butler, “Satyr”, in R[obert] Thyer, editor, The Genuine Remains in Verse and Prose of Mr. Samuel Butler, […], volume I, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, […], published 1759, →OCLC, page 77, lines 143–146:

(nautical) A cabin boy, a shipboy or ship's boy.

Senses relating to people.
A cabin boy, a shipboy or ship's boy.


drab

en-noun

drab (countable and uncountable, plural drabs)

Probably from Middle French and Old French drap (“cloth”), either:
* from Late Latin drappus (“drabcloth, kerchief; piece of cloth”), most likely from Gaulish *drappo, from Proto-Indo-European *drep- (“to scratch, tear”); or
* from Frankish *drapi, *drāpi (“that which is fulled, drabcloth”), from Proto-Germanic *drap-, *drēp- (“something beaten”), from *drepaną (“to beat, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrebʰ- (“to beat, crush; to make or become thick”).
The English word is cognate with Ancient Greek δρέπω (drépō, “to pluck”), Avestan 𐬛𐬭𐬀𐬟𐬱𐬀 (drafša, “banner, flag”), Lithuanian drãpanos (“household linens”), Old Norse trefja (“to rub, wear out”), trof (“fringes”), Sanskrit द्रापि (drāpi, “mantle, gown”), Serbo-Croatian drápati (“to scratch, scrape”)).

cog

John Hanſell, of Bridport, in Dorſetſhire, ſail-cloth manufacturer, ſtates in his evidence, that the ſale of coarſe woollen cloath was not then a twentieth part of what it had been for the common people formerly, owing to their ſubſtituting Ruſſia drabs and ravenſduck as garments in place of the coarſe woollens.

1786, “Letter X”, in Examinator’s Letters, or, A Mirror for British Monopolists and Irish Financiers, Dublin: Printed, and sold by the booksellers, →OCLC, pages 41–42:

A fabric, usually of thick cotton or wool, having a dull brownish yellow, dull grey, or dun colour.

grosse toile écrue

fabric having a dull brownish yellow, dull grey, or dun colour


drab

The origin of the noun is uncertain; compare Middle English drabelen, drablen, draplen (“to soil; make dirty; to drag on the ground or through mud”), and Low German drabbe (“dirt, mud”), drabbeln (“to soil”), and Old Norse drabba (“to make drab; make dirty”), the latter three ultimately from Proto-Germanic *drepaną (“to hit, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreb- (“to crush, grind; to kill”). The word is also likely to be related to Dutch drab (“dregs, sediment”), Irish drabog, Scottish Gaelic drabag (“dirty woman; slattern”).
The verb is derived from the noun.

Take heed to false harlots, and more, ye wot what. / If noise ye heare, / Looke all be cleare: / Least drabs doe noie thee, / And theeues destroie thee.

1878, Thomas Tusser, “74. A Digression.”, in Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie. […], London: Published for the English Dialect Society by Trübner & Co., […], →OCLC; republished as W[illiam] Payne, Sidney J[ohn Hervon] Herrtage, editors, Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie. […], London: Published for the English Dialect Society by Trübner & Co., […], 1878, →OCLC, stanza 4, page 166:

[T]hey ſay hee keepes a Troyan drab, and yſes the traytor Calcas tent, Ile after … —Nothing but letchery all incontinent varlots.

c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], lines 93–95:

Experience ſhewes, his Purſe ſhall ſoone grow light, / Whom Dice waſtes in the day, Drabs in the night: / Let all auoyde falſe Strumpets, Dice, and Drinke; / For hee that leaps in Mudde, ſhall quickly ſinke.

1611 December 27 (first performance), Io[hn] Cooke, Greenes Tu Quoque, or, The Cittie Gallant. […], printed at London: [By Nicholas Okes] for Iohn Trundle, published 1614, →OCLC:

Curs'd be the Wretch! ſo venal and ſo vain; / Paltry and proud, as drabs in Drury-lane.

1735, Alexander Pope, “[Satires of Dr. John Donne, Dean of St. Paul’s.] The Second Satire of Dr. John Donne.”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume II, London: […] J. Wright, for Lawton Gilliver […], →OCLC, page 49, lines 63–64:

Where the Red Lion ſtaring o'er the way, / Invites each paſſing ſtranger that can pay; / Where Calvert’s butt, and Parſon’s black champaign, / Regale the drabs and bloods of Drury-lane; [...]

a. 1775, Oliver Goldsmith, “A Description of an Author’s Bed-chamber”, in Poems and Plays. […], new corrected edition, London: Printed for Messrs. Price [et al.], published 1785, →OCLC, page 10:

Ineffable sarcasm underlined the word 'bride', suggesting that Mrs Mudge must be a drab who had married for respectability.

1957, Frank Swinnerton, The Woman from Sicily, London: Hutchinson, →OCLC, page 194:

(dated) A promiscuous woman, a slut; a prostitute.


drab

Alteration of drag, possibly via the folk-etymological backronym "DRessed As a Girl" (with boy replacing girl).

Just for those who may not be aware of the term, “drab” is how you might describe a transgendered person (including transsexuals, crossdressers, drag queens, etc.) that is presenting as their birth sex. For instance, if Rain is dressed as a boy, she is dressed in “drab”. My original idea had Ruby on this page too, but that took away from the “drab” theme.

2012 November 1, Jocelyn Samara D., “Comic 278 - Ch. 12 - Drab”, in Rain, archived from the original on 2020-01-21:

(chiefly transgender slang) An instance of a transgender or non-binary person presenting as the gender corresponding to their sex assigned at birth instead of that corresponding to their internal gender identity (for instance, a trans woman dressed as a man).


tweak

en-verb

tweak (third-person singular simple present tweaks, present participle tweaking, simple past and past participle tweaked)

tweaks (present singular third-person)
tweaking (participle present)
tweaked (participle past)
tweaked (past)

From Middle English twikken, from Old English twiccian (“to pluck”), from Proto-West Germanic *twekkōn (“to fasten; clamp; pinch”). Related to twitch. The drug-related sense may be a blend of twitch and freak.

inh

(intransitive, US, slang) To abuse methamphetamines, especially crystal meth.

(military, weaponry, uncommon) From a catapult, to strike a target with a missile.


tweak

a tweak of the nose

A sharp pinch or jerk; a twist or twitch.

щипване

a sharp pinch or jerk; a twist or twitch; as, a tweak of the nose

(cryptography) An additional input to a block cipher, used in conjunction with the key to select the permutation computed by the cipher.


brimstone

en-noun

brimstone (countable and uncountable, plural brimstones)

From Middle English brymston, brimston, bremston, forms of brinston, brenston, bernston, from Old English brynstān (“brimstone”, literally “burn-stone”), equivalent to brian + stone, or burn + stone. Cognate with Scots brunstane (“brimstone”), Icelandic brennisteinn (“sulfur / sulphur, brimstone”), German Bernstein (“amber”). Compare also brimfire. More at burn, stone.
Once a synonym for "sulfur", the word is now restricted to Biblical usage.

cog

For griefe thereof, and diuelish despight, / From his infernall fournace forth he threw / Huge flames, that dimmed all the heauens light, / Enrold in duskish smoke and brimstone blew.

1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene:

Till, as a signal giv'n, th' uplifted Spear / Of their great Sultan waving to direct / Thir course, in even ballance down they light / On the firm brimstone, and fill all the Plain; / A multitude.

[W]hen he [the Devil] is aweary of vice, and aweary of virtue, used up as to brimstone, and used up as to bliss [...]

But the sulphurous brimstone which burns in hell is a substance which is specially designed to burn for ever and for ever with unspeakable fury.

1916, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man:


tart

en-verb

tart (third-person singular simple present tarts, present participle tarting, simple past and past participle tarted)

tarts (present singular third-person)
tarting (participle present)
tarted (participle past)
tarted (past)

From sweetheart or jam tart (“attractive woman”) by shortening.


track

→ Kashubian: trak (Canada)

From Middle English trak, tracke, from Old French trac (“track of horses, trail, trace”), of uncertain origin. Likely from a Germanic source, either Old Norse traðk ("a track; path; trodden spot"; > Icelandic traðk (“a track; path; tread”), Faroese traðk (“track; tracks”), Norwegian tråkke (“to trample”)) or from Middle Dutch trec, *trac, treck ("line, row, series"; > Dutch trek (“a draft; feature; trait; groove; expedition”)), German Low German Treck (“a draught; movement; passage; flow”). See tread, trek.

gloss

"line, row, series"; > Dutch <i class="Latn mention" lang="nl">trek</i> (“a draft; feature; trait; groove; expedition”)

cog

The athletes ran round the track.

The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.

1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 58:

A path or course laid out for a race, for exercise, etc.

مِضْمَار

path or course laid out for a race or exercise


track

en-verb

track (third-person singular simple present tracks, present participle tracking, simple past and past participle tracked)

tracks (present singular third-person)
tracking (participle present)
tracked (participle past)
tracked (past)

проследявам

to observe the (measured) state of an object over time

monitor

observe the state of an object over time

To continue over time.
(transitive) To tow.


outlaw

From Middle English outlawe, outlagh, utlaȝe, from Old English ūtlaga (“outlaw”), borrowed from Old Norse útlagi (“outlaw, fugitive”), equivalent to out- + law. Cognate with Icelandic útlagi (“outlaw”).

The main character in the play was a bit of an outlaw who refused to shake hands or say thank you.

en:person who operates outside established norms

A person who operates outside established norms.


seraglio

/səˈɹæɡliːoʊ/

From Italian serraglio, from Vulgar Latin *serrāculum, from a late form of Latin serāre (“lock up, close”), from sera (“lock, bolt”). The Italian word was used (because of phonetic similarity) to translate Turkish saray (palace). Compare serai, serail.

The sequestered living quarters used by wives and concubines (odalisques) in a Turkish Muslim household.


quiff

How would I get an African toothache when the closest I been to a quiff in over a month is sitting next to one?

1949, John O'Hara, A Rage to Live, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, page 193:

(slang) A young girl, especially as promiscuous; a prostitute.


malaya

Ultimately from Persian بلایه (balâya, “harlot”).


ตัว

Ultimately from Chinese 頭 (OC *[m-t]ˁo). Cognate with Northern Thai ᨲ᩠ᩅᩫ, Lao ໂຕ (tō) or ຕົວ (tūa), Lü ᦷᦎ (ṫo), Tai Dam ꪶꪔ (to1), Tai Dón ꪔꪺ (to1), Shan တူဝ် (tǒ), Tai Nüa ᥖᥨᥝ (tow), Ahom 𑜄𑜥 (tū) or 𑜄𑜤 (tu), Zhuang duz, Saek ทั๊ว and Khmer តួ (tuə). Compare also Japanese 頭 (tō, “counter for certain animals”).

cog

(now considered colloquial) a second person pronoun, used to address a person of equal or lower status: you.


hoon

Capricornia (novel)
Kelmscott, Western Australia
The Australian National Dictionary
Xavier Herbert

Uncertain; used initially as a general term of abuse. It first appeared in print in Capricornia (1938) by Australian writer Xavier Herbert (1901–1984); in a 1941 letter Herbert stated he had heard the term in his youth.

'You flash hoon,' he went on, 'Kiddin' you're white, eh?[…].'

1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia: A Novel, Sydney: Angus & Robertson, →OCLC:

(Australia, New Zealand, slang, derogatory) A worthless person; a hooligan or lout.


strumpet

From Middle English strumpet, strompet, strumpett. Further origin uncertain; possibly from Middle Dutch strompen (“to stalk”) or strompe (“stocking”); or Late Latin stuprum (“violation”) or stuprare (“to violate”).

He cals her on a ſudden, all to naught; ſhe is a ſtrumpet, a light huswife, a bitch, an arrant whore.

1638, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Symptomes of Iealousie, Fear, Sorrow, Suspition, Strange Actions, Gestures, Outrages, Locking Up, Oathes, Trials, Lawes, &c.”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy. […], 5th edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [Robert Young, Miles Flesher, and Leonard Lichfield and William Turner] for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 3, section 3, member 2, subsection 1, page 610:

We have legalized the strumpet and are guarding her retreat; Greed is seeking out commercial souls before his judgement seat; O, be swift, ye clods, to answer him! be jubilant my feet! Our god is marching on!

1900, Mark Twain, The Battle Hymn of the Republic, Updated:

However, terrible as it may seem to the tall maiden sisters of J.P.'s in Queen Anne houses with walled vegetable gardens, this courtesan, strumpet, harlot, whore, punk, fille de joie, street-walker, this trollop, this trull, this baggage, this hussy, this drab, skit, rig, quean, mopsy, demirep, demimondaine, this wanton, this fornicatress, this doxy, this concubine, this frail sister, this poor Queenie--did actually solicit me, did actually say 'coming home to-night, dearie' and my soul was not blasted enough to call a policeman.

1936, Anthony Bertram, Like the Phoenix:


fireship

His attempt in 208 to cross the Yangtse was frustrated in the famous battle of Ch'ih-pi, in which his immense fleet was destroyed by his enemies' fireships, and most of his army slain.

1984, Witold Rodzinksi, The Walled Kingdom: A History of China from 2000 BC to the Present, London: Fontana Paperbacks, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 69:

(nautical) A sailing ship that has been set alight and left to drift into an opposing fleet. Famously used by Englishman Sir Francis Drake when fighting the Spanish Armada of 1588.


mermaid

From Middle English mermayde (“maid of the sea”), from mere (“sea, lake”) + maid, equivalent to mer- + maid. Cognate with Dutch meermeid (“mermaid”), Middle High German mermaget, mermeit (“mermaid”, > German Meermagd, Meermädchen (“mermaid”)). Compare Old English meremenn, meremennen, meremenin (“mermaid, siren”).

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A Gentleman or an honeſt Cittizen, ſhall not Sit in your pennie-bench Theaters, vvith his Squirrell by his ſide cracking nuttes; nor ſneake into a Tauerne vvith his Mermaid; but he ſhall be Satyr'd and Epigram'd vpon, and his humour muſt run vpo'th Stage: […]

1601 (first performance), Thomas Dekker, Satiro-mastix. Or The Untrussing of the Humorous Poet. […], London: […] [Edward Allde] for Edward White, […], published 1602, →OCLC, signature H2, recto:


brothel

Short for brothel-house (“house of prostitution”), from brothel (“a wretch; scoundrel; lecher; harlot; prostitute”) + house, influenced by bordel. For more on brothel (“a wretch”), see below.


dollymop

(slang, British) An amateur, often part-time, female prostitute in 19th-century London.


casino

→ English: casino

→ Ladino: gazino

→ Ottoman Turkish: غازینو (gazino)

Turkish: gazino

→ Portuguese: casino

→ Spanish: casino

From casa + -ino; cognate with Piedmontese casin.


gill

From Middle English gille, gylle (“gill”), of North Germanic origin, akin to Danish gælle, Swedish gäl, Norwegian gjelle, and further to Old Norse gjǫlnar (“lips”), which also may have had the meaning of "gills" (based on Old Danish fiskegæln (“gills”)). The Old Norse word has been suggested as deriving from Proto-Germanic *gelunō (“jaw”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰel-, which would make it root-cognate to Ancient Greek χελύνη (khelúnē, “lip, jaw”), χεῖλος (kheîlos, “lip”).
Displaced native Old English ċīe.

cog

Gill nets are designed to catch a fish by the gills.


gill

Clipping of gillian, from the female name Gillian.

(obsolete) a promiscuous woman; harlot, wanton


minx

PIE word
 *ǵʰmṓ
The origin of the noun is uncertain. The following possible derivations have been suggested:
* A variation of minikin (“(obsolete) young person, especially a young woman; small or insignificant person, thing, or amount”) + a variation of -s (suffix forming hypocoristic nouns (nicknames)) (compare minckins, a variant of minikin).
* From Dutch mens, mensch (“human being, person; (derogatory, informal) woman”) (obsolete), Middle Dutch minsc, minsce, minsch; or from German Low German minsch, minsk, Middle Low German minsche (“hussy, wench”), all ultimately from Proto-Germanic *manniskaz (“human”, adjective), from *mann- (“human being, person; man”) (possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰmṓ (“earthling”), *men- (“to mind; to think; spiritual activity”), or *mon- (“human being; man”)) + *-iskaz (suffix meaning ‘characteristic of, pertaining to’ forming adjectives).
The verb is derived from the noun.

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LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-minx.wav

Well, yet at length the houre came that flattered him with grace, / Who all too haſtie hide him ſelfe to his appointed place. / Arrived there, a pretie minx (directed wel before) / Unto a lodging brought this lord, and locked faſt the dore. / When he was ſafe, awaye ſhe went, for joy Alberto hopt, / But ſee, a chaunge! too late he ſpyde he was in priſon popt. / The windowes made of yron barres, the walles of ſtone and clay, / A bed he found, but farre unfit he thought for Venus play.

1576, George Whetstone, “The Arbour of Vertue, […]”, in The Rocke of Regard, […], London: […] [H. Middleton] for Robert Waley, →OCLC; republished in J[ohn] P[ayne] Collier, editor, The Rocke of Regard, […] (Illustrations of Early English Poetry; vol. 2, no. 2), London: Privately printed, [1867?], →OCLC, pages 164–165:

[W]hat did you meane by that ſame handkercher, you gaue mee euen now? […] this is ſome minxes token, and I muſt take out the worke; there, giue it the hobby horſe, whereſoeuer you had it, I'le take out no worke on't.

c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragœdy of Othello, the Moore of Venice. […] (First Quarto), London: […] N[icholas] O[kes] for Thomas Walkley, […], published 1622, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 65:

If thou be abſent long, thy wife then thinkes, / Th'art drunke, at eaſe, or with ſome pretty minkes, / 'Tis well with thee, or elſe beloued of ſome, / Whil'ſt ſhee poore ſoule doth fare full ill at home.

1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Causes of Iealousie, Who are Most Apt. […]”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 3, section 3, member 1, subsection 2, page 469:

They are a couple of alluring wanton Minxes.

1677 (date written), John Dryden, The Kind Keeper; or, Mr. Limberham: A Comedy: […], London: […] R[ichard] Bentley, and M[ary] Magnes, […], published 1680, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 4:

He to his ardent love ſhall win the fair, / From beauty's queen, to her who ſcrubs the ſtair, / From the Kept-miſtreſs, or the Counteſs vain, / Down to the tawdry Minx in Drury Lane.

1760, J. Copywell [pseudonym; William Woty], “Money. A Fragment of an Intended Parody.”, in The Shrubs of Parnassus. Consisting of a Variety of Poetical Essays, Moral and Comic, London: […] J[ohn] Newbery, […], →OCLC, page 142:

For my part, if I understand these sphinxes, / These living riddles called Olympian Gods, / I think they are in love with mortal minxes; / (It would not be the only time by odds;) […]

1864, England’s Bards, 1864; or, The Three Poems which were Awarded the One Hundred Guineas Offered as Prizes in the Advertisement “Ho! For a Shakespeare!” which Appeared about the Time of Shakespeare’s Tercentenary Anniversary, London: Day and Son, […], →OCLC, section I (Pallas Athené and Venus at Breakfast with Juno, in One of Her Apartments), page 12:

There wasn't an Archimandrite of Dane's Island and the townlands nor a minx from the Isle of Woman […] would come next or nigh him, […]

1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC, part III, page 496:

Tragically forgot to take drying washing down off rack over Aga and a pair of my very large knickers was perilously close to brushing the top of his hair as he came in. […] I quickly swapped them with a pair of ELDEST's teeny-weeny ones, so he thinks he might be marrying into a family of sex minxes who stay that way well into middle age.

2009, Judith Holder, “January”, in The Secret Diary of a Grumpy Old Woman: AKA A Year in Big Knickers, London: Hachette UK, published 2011, →ISBN:

(derogatory, dated) A promiscuous woman; also, a mistress (“the other woman in an extramarital relationship”) or a prostitute.


minx

en-verb

minx (third-person singular simple present minxes, present participle minxing, simple past and past participle minxed)

minxes (present singular third-person)
minxing (participle present)
minxed (participle past)
minxed (past)

[He] knows the dress of every girl he meets— / In fact could cut you out the very plan, / Each article could name, and tell you every shade, / Whether adorning minxing miss or ancient maid!

1861, [Dr. Milligan], “Flight the Fifth”, in Baal: Or, Sketches of Social Evils. A Poem, in Ten Flights, London: William Freeman, […], →OCLC, page 102:

Alison might have, if she hadn't minxed herself out of a job.

2001 July, Alan Bissett, Damage Land: New Scottish Gothic Fiction, Edinburgh: Polygon, →ISBN, page 60:

She grabbed desperately at the pistol, singeing hot, and she and Ginny fell to the floor, Marion on top and looking down at twisty little Ginny, that minxing blond thrush, now beneath her, churning under her and spitting and hacking and cursing Marion and cursing her so.

2009, Megan Abbott, Bury Me Deep, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, →ISBN, page 121:

It's just a late date. It's like I'm Carrie Bradshaw, minxing it around Manhattan.

2010, Eleanor Moran, Mr Almost Right, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN:

Moonface minxed and flashed her red nails like a dancer, chameleon that she was.

2013, Norm Sibum, “Book III—In Continuation, a Proper Narrative”, in Dan Wells, editor, The Traymore Rooms: A Novel in Five Parts: Quebec, America and Rome, Windsor, Ont.: Biblioasis, →ISBN, part 2 (Echo’s Gone), page 261:

Sadly, I was the one minxing around, so I was inevitably going to meet a horrible death.

2014, Kelly Brook, Close Up: The Autobiography, London: Sidgwick & Jackson, →ISBN:

(transitive, intransitive) Used transitively when followed by it: to behave like a minx, that is, in a flirtatious and impudent manner.


minx

The Minx […] frequents the water like the Otter, and very much reſembles it in ſhape and color, but is leſs; will abide longer under the water than the muſk quaſh, muſk rat, or little beaver: […]

1771, Thomas Pennant, quoting John Bartram, “Otter”, in Synopsis of Quadrupeds, Chester, Cheshire: […] J. Monk, →OCLC, page 240:

Many of these birds are destroyed by Weasels and Minxes.

1831, John James Audubon, “The Great Carolina Wren. Troglodytes ludovicianus, Ch. Bonaparte. […]”, in Ornithological Biography, or An Account of the Habits of the Birds of the United States of America; […], Edinburgh: Adam Black, […], →OCLC, page 401:

2d. Carnivora, or flesh eaters. Of these we have […] the New York ermine, or ermine weasel; the mink, or minx otter; the common otter; […]

1847, J. H. Mather, L. P. Brockett, “Zoology. [Class I. Mammalia.]”, in Geography of the State of New York. […], Hartford, Conn.: J. H. Mather & Co. [et al.], →OCLC, page 39:

We next come to the mink or minx otter (Putorius Vison) which is the only animal of the genus mustela inhabiting the northern parts of America that can be said to live in the water, and the name of "fisher" could with much justice be transferred from its present bearer to the mink.

[1876], Charles Henry Eden, chapter VII, in The Home of the Wolverene and Beaver; or, Fur-hunting in the Wilds of Canada, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; New York, N.Y.: Pott, Young & Co., →OCLC, page 153:

There is, however, scarcely any distinction in the other portions of the dress of the sexes [of southeastern Alaskan natives], except that the skin coats or tunics of the women and the facings of the bonnet or hood (worn by both sexes) are more elaborately decorated with minx, otter, or seal fur about the throat, and down the front, than those of the men.

1893 March, John H. Keatley, “Under the Arctic Circle”, in B[enjamin] O[range] Flower, editor, The Arena, volume VII, number XL, Boston, Mass.: Arena Publishing Co., →OCLC, page 491:

obsolete spelling of mink (“any of various semi-aquatic, carnivorous mammals in the Mustelinae subfamily”)..


yellow card

→ Japanese: イエローカード (ierōkādo)

→ Korean: 옐로카드 (yellokadeu)

/ˈjɛl.əʊ ˌkɑːd/

association football
association football

(sports) a yellow-coloured card, shown to a player (especially in association football) as a caution that he or she has committed a flagrant foul; a further such foul would result in a red card.

Some large modern dance companies, most large ballet companies, and most large theater companies also require union crews. These are called yellow card companies.

1991, M. Kay Barrell, The technical production handbook:

Each local union has a separate number; New York was the first so they are Local One. Chicago is Local Two. A yellow card (they have been printed on yellow cardstock since time began) is sent out telling how many hands will be required in in each department for the load-in, load-out, and for the run of the show.

2014, John Ramsey Holloway, Illustrated Theatre Production Guide, page 6:

(often attributive) A card sent out by a travelling dance or theatre company to request temporary personnel from a local labor union.

(historical) a card given to British Army personnel during The Troubles .


bordel

bordel (nominative singular)
bordely (nominative plural)
bordelu (genitive singular)
bordelů (genitive plural)
bordelu (dative singular)
bordelům (dative plural)
bordel (accusative singular)
bordely (accusative plural)
bordele (singular vocative)
bordely (plural vocative)
bordelu (locative singular)
bordelech (locative plural)
bordelem (instrumental singular)
bordely (instrumental plural)

Borrowed from French bordel (“brothel”).


bordel

hsb-noun

bordel m inan (related adjective bordelowy)

bordelowy (adjective)
bordel (nominative singular)
bordelej (dual nominative)
bordele (nominative plural)
bordela (genitive singular)
bordelow (dual genitive)
bordelow (genitive plural)
bordelej (dative singular)
bordelomaj (dative dual)
bordelam (dative plural)
bordel (accusative singular)
bordelej (accusative dual)
bordele (accusative plural)
bordelom (instrumental singular)
bordelomaj (dual instrumental)
bordelemi (instrumental plural)
bordelu (locative singular)
bordelomaj (dual locative)
bordelach (locative plural)
bordelo (singular vocative)
bordelej (dual vocative)
bordele (plural vocative)


working girl

From working + girl. First use appears c. 1620, in the publications of Thomas Shelton.

(rare) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see working, girl.


walker

→ Irish: válcaeir

→ Persian: واکر (vâker)

From Middle English walkere (“one who walks, traveller”), equivalent to walk + -er.

inh

A single mother of three, Rachel is what Facebook users call as ^([sic]) “walker,” or an online sex worker. Using a dummy account, she posts her sexy photos and informs page visitors that she’s available for sex in exchange for money.

2019 June 22, Charisse Ursal, “Social media lures young people to engage in sex for money”, in Philippine Daily Inquirer:

(Philippines) A prostitute, streetwalker.


walker

From English walker, from Middle English walkere, from Old English wealcere.


bangtail

From bang + tail. The primary meaning refers to the sense bang (“fringe of hair cut across the forehead”).

1851, Turning Out a Bagman: A Legend of Brighton Downs, in Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith Bentley's Miscellany, Volume XXIX, page 259,
Two lean, ewe-necked, clipt chestnuts, tucked up in the ribs, with hard work and bad feeding, but with such flowing bang-tails as at once stamped them in the eyes of our friends as “ out-and-out ” thorough-breds—were led up and down by John. […] The bang-tails, no doubt, supposing themselves out for their usual “airing,” put themselves in the regular side-long position, and struck at once into a sort of hectic canter ; a particular movement, peculiar to Brighton bang-tails, and adapted to the most innocent equestrian.

1903, Tom Collins (Joseph Furphy), Such Is Life: Being Certain Extracts from the Diary of Tom Collins, 2004, page 68,
"And did you see a dark chestnut horse; bang tail; star and snip; white hind feet; saddle and bridle on?" I asked.

Lennan held the black horse — a bizarre little beast, all fire and whipcord, with a skin like satin, liquid eyes, very straight hocks, and a thin bangtail reaching down to them.

1913, John Galsworthy, The Dark Flower, page 244:

Once we get the herd we can set up relays to keep the bangtails movin' as we go.

2005, Cynthia Queen, The Major's Renegade, page 127:

The tail of a horse or cow, allowed to grow out and then trimmed horizontally so as to form a tassel; a horse or cow having such a tail.

“Eddie!” whinnied Daley, the distraught worshipper of the bang-tails. “Eddie! Phar Lap is dead!”

1934, Stanley Walker, City Editor, published 1999, page 99:

Americans bet $5,000,000,000 a year on the galloping bangtails.

1937, The American Magazine, volume 124, page 52:

If you happen to be out on the far east side between April 23 and September 5, with $10 burning a hole in your pocket, hie yourself out to River Downs Race Track, 6301 Kellogg Avenue, and bet on the bangtails.

1983 March, Cincinnati Magazine, page 43:

I was ridin' the horses then, you understand, and maybe known to take a flutter or two on the bangtails while I was about it.


bangtail

en-verb

bangtail (third-person singular simple present bangtails, present participle bangtailing, simple past and past participle bangtailed)

bangtails (present singular third-person)
bangtailing (participle present)
bangtailed (participle past)
bangtailed (past)

To shear off the hair horizontally at the end of a cow or horse's tail.


all-nighter

From all-night + -er = all- + night + -er.

(US, crime, slang) A criminal or other person kept in jail over night.


theater

English: theater, theatre

Scots: theatre

/ˌtɛːˈaːtər/

From Old French theatre, from Latin theatrum, from Ancient Greek θέατρον (théatron).

Any stage which plays and performances take place at.


zorra

First attested in the 15th century. Of unclear origin: perhaps from an unknown pre-Roman language, or perhaps from Basque azari/azeri (“fox”) (a third suggestion, which holds that the term derives from onomatopoeia, is considered "far from convincing" and "unprovable").


trollop

Origin uncertain; apparently connected with the Middle English trollen (“to go about, stroll, roll from side to side”). Ostensibly influenced, if not derived, in some way by a word from Old Norse trǫll (“troll, witch, mage, monster, etc.”).

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Many an unfortunate Tuppenny trollop has gone from the old hag's den to the special ward at Little Bay, but not before the fell disease of the harlotic slums has been spread broadcast among the reckless patrons.

1903 February 8, The Truth, Sydney, page 3, column 4:

However, terrible as it may seem to the tall maiden sisters of J.P.'s in Queen Anne houses with walled vegetable gardens, this courtesan, strumpet, harlot, whore, punk, fille de joie, street-walker, this trollop, this trull, this baggage, this hussy, this drab, skit, rig, quean, mopsy, demirep, demimondaine, this wanton, this fornicatress, this doxy, this concubine, this frail sister, this poor Queenie--did actually solicit me, did actually say 'coming home to-night, dearie' and my soul was not blasted enough to call a policeman.

1936, Anthony Bertram, Like the Phoenix:

Aarfy's buxom trollop had vanished with her smutty cameo ring, and Nurse Duckett was ashamed of him because he had refused to fly more combat missions and would cause a scandal.

1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Eternal City”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 433:

slet

woman of a vulgar and discourteous disposition


Prostitution

de-noun

Prostitution f (genitive Prostitution, no plural)

Prostitution (genitive)
Prostitution (nominative singular)
Prostitution (genitive singular)
Prostitution (dative singular)
Prostitution (accusative singular)


bordello

en-noun

bordello (plural bordellos or bordelloes)

/bɔː(ɹ)ˈdɛləʊ/

From Italian bordello. Distantly related to brothel, through Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to carve, cut, split, rub”). Doublet of bordel.


bordello

English: bordello

Greek: μπορντέλο n (borntélo)

Maltese: burdell

From Old French bordel (“small hut, cabin; brothel”), diminutive of bord, from Medieval Latin bordellum, from Frankish *bord (“board”), from Proto-Germanic *burdą (“board, table”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰr̥dʰ-o- (“board”), suffixed zero-grade form of *bʰer-edʰ- (“to cut”), suffixed form of *bʰer- (“to carve, cut, split, rub”).

(informal, slightly vulgar) a large quantity


lady abbess

That Lady Abbess of all secret sin. / Swears that she is so lean and ugly grown, / She will not pass with her for half a crown, / Yet Stamford's countess does admire her wit, / But likes it most because 'tis lewdly writ.

ca 1670–80, ?, Description of a Poetress

The Lady Abbess took leave of her young Probationer, to dispatch some affairs of her own elsewhere; having promised to return next morning about the same Hour she had done that day.

1683, Ferrante Pallavicino, The Whores Rhetorick, pages 128–129:

This is our College, Madam; and these are the Students: Or rather, Madam, this is a Nunnery, and I am Lady Abbess.

And whenever any She-member could convert a Proselite, and bring her over from a vertuous Life to be willing to embrace that earthly Tabernacle, Man, for such excellent Service done to the Church of Venus, she was to receive ten Shillings of the Mother of the Maids, provided the Conformist was under twenty Years of Age, had a tollerable Share of Beauty, and either was, or could confidently put herself into the Hands of the old Matron, as a Virgo intacta, and would submit herself to be dispos'd on by her as should me most agreeable to their united Interest; the Lady-Abbess of the Brothel Monastry never wanting among the Salacious Quality of her old Acquaintance; a Gouty Courtier, or some rich over-grown Officer, to be ready-money Chapmen for any of her Punchable Nuns, who had not, as yet, broken the brittle Vow of Female Chastity.

1756, ?, A compleat and humorous account of all the remarkable clubs and societies, seventh edition, page 270

(rare, obsolete, euphemistic) A bawd, the mistress of a brothel.


rapariga

/ʁɐ.pɐˈɾi.ɡɐ/

[ʁɐ.pɐˈɾi.ɣɐ]

From Old Galician-Portuguese rapariga, from raparigo (now only dialectal), *raprigo, from Leonese rapiego.

(Brazil, derogatory) hooker, whore, slut, female prostitute