"hedge whore" meaning in All languages combined

See hedge whore on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: hedge whores [plural]
Etymology: From hedge (“third-rate”) + whore (“prostitute”). Compare hedge alehouse, hedge priest. Head templates: {{en-noun}} hedge whore (plural hedge whores)
  1. (historical) An inferior prostitute. Tags: historical Categories (topical): People Synonyms: prostitute Related terms: hedge courtesan, hedge wench
    Sense id: en-hedge_whore-en-noun-rIyS-2FE Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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        {
          "ref": "1653, Francis Rabelais [i.e., François Rabelais], translated by [Thomas Urquhart] and [Peter Anthony Motteux], “Of the Disposition of the People this Year”, in The Works of Francis Rabelais, Doctor in Physick: Containing Five Books of the Lives, Heroick Deeds, and Sayings of Gargantua, and His Sonne Pantagruel. […], London: […] [Thomas Ratcliffe and Edward Mottershead] for Richard Baddeley, […], →OCLC; republished in volume II, London: […] Navarre Society […], [1948], →OCLC, book the fifth, page 430:",
          "text": "Those whom Venus is said to rule, as Punks, Jills, Flirts, Queans, Morts, Doxies, Strumpets, Buttocks, Blowings, Tits, Pure Ones, Concubines, Convenients, Cracks, Drabs, Trulls, Light-skirts, Wrigglers, Misses, Cats, Riggs, Try'd Virgins, Bonarobaes, Barbers Chairs, Hedge-whores, Wagtails, Cockatrices, Whipsters, Twiggers, Harlots, Kept-wenches, Kind-hearted-things, Ladies of Pleasure, by what Titles or Names soever dignified or distinguish'd;",
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          "text": "HEDGE WHORE, an itinerant harlot, who bilks the bagnios and bawdy houſes, by diſpoſing of her favours, on the way ſide, under a hedge; a low beggarly proſtitute.",
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        "(historical) An inferior prostitute."
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