Crossword clues for trollop
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Trollop \Trol"lop\, n. [From Troll to roll, to stroll; but cf. also Trull.] A stroller; a loiterer; esp., an idle, untidy woman; a slattern; a slut; a whore.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, "slovenly woman," often with implications of moral looseness, probably from troll (v.) in sense of "roll about, wallow."[A] certain Anne Hayward, wife of Gregory Hayward of Beighton, did in the parishe church of Beighton aforesaid in the time of Divine Service or Sermon there, and when the Minister was reading & praying, violently & boisterously presse & enter into the seat or place where one Elizabeth, wife of Robert Spurlinir, was quietly at her Devotion & Duty to Almighty God and then and there did quarrel chide & braule & being evilly & inalitiously bent did use then and there many rayleing opprobrious Speeches & Invectives against the said Elizabeth calling her Tripe & Trallop, to the great disturbance both of the Minister and Congregation. [Archdeaconry of Sudbury, Suffolk, Court Proceedings, 1682]
Wiktionary
n. 1 A woman held by others as retaining a vulgar and discourteous disposition. 2 (context derogatory English) A strumpet, a whore vb. 1 to act in a sluggish or slovenly manner 2 (''Scotch'') to dangle soggily : become bedraggled 3 to behave like a trollop 4 A gait performed by a horse which falls between a trot and a gallop. Also known as a canter.
WordNet
n. a dirty untidy woman [syn: slattern, slut, slovenly woman]
a woman adulterer [syn: adulteress, fornicatress, hussy, jade, loose woman, slut, strumpet]
Wikipedia
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Usage examples of "trollop".
Chilton told me that a master horologist sells timepieces, not trollops.
Then sounding three blasts upon the silver horn which hung at his baldrick, Calverley led the way slowly on the road to Hasfield, Trollop following, with a hang-dog look, behind.
Now why would his granddam replace Lady Anamara and his mother with this one-time trollop as her guardian?
Trollop had sought immunity by volunteering to bring in proscribed fugitives, and that he was the leader of a party of riders who were sent into Radnorshire and Herefordshire for the express purpose of arresting King Henry, who was believed to have escaped to Wales, Queen Margaret and the Prince, and the families of such as Exeter and Oxford.
Pilar Cafe basement had been decorated more or less like an Edwardian brothel, with one-dimensional naked trollops, rather than real whores, debauching around on feed calendars, and framed Playboy centerfolds lining the golden walls.
For years the Pilar Cafe basement had been decorated more or less like an Edwardian brothel, with one-dimensional naked trollops, rather than real whores, debauching around on feed calendars, and framed Playboy centerfolds lining the golden walls.
You're running with the flash mob, now, but thinking like a trollop!
She couldn't wait to tell Marty about submarines, hyderfoils, giant squids, french-fried tentacles, and trollops with the queen.
For once I was at a loss - as who would not be, on discovering that while he was bulling a chap's wife all over the shop and probably making a hell of an uproar, the chap himself was virtually next door brushing his teeth or pomading his eyebrows - and even now might be conducting an orgy just across the way with three trollops while the wife of his bosom was smiling tenderly on her bemused lover, kissing him fondly, leading him back to bed, and settling into his arms for conversation and drowsy fondling which must lead inevitably to another outbreak of feverish passion?
He had his belt stuck full of daggers, a long sword at his thigh, a rusty arbalest on his left, a large jug of wine before him, to say nothing of a trollop with open bosom on his right.
Well, thinks I, as I watched him rolling off, if that's your gratitude you can take your trollops elsewhere.
They stopped midway down the block to tap lightly at one of those portals that plainly led to a small apartment, and Tarma expected it to be opened by another of the painted, bright-eyed trollops who bestowed themselves on doorways and windows all up and down this thoroughfare.
He had plenty of opportunity to see good—it wasn't just the trollops he had stolen for his rites.