trull
see also: Trull
Pronunciation
Trull
Proper noun
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see also: Trull
Pronunciation
- IPA: /tɹʌl/
trull (plural trulls)
- A female prostitute or harlot.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 365:
- ‘Hark'ee, child,’ says she, ‘is not that very young gentleman now in bed with some nasty trull or other?’
- 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘Dray Wara Yow Dee’, Black and White, Folio Society 2004, vol. 1, p. 369:
- South of Delhi, Sahib, you know the saying—‘Rats are the men and trulls the women.’
- 1936: Like the Phoenix by Anthony Bertram
- 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.
- 2002: One Head Too Many by Peter Tonkin
- A trull for certain, then; but a trull reformed, long since come up in the world.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 365:
- Russian: проститу́тка
trull (plural trulls)
- (card games) A set of three special trump cards used in some Tarock games, having a higher value than the other trumps.
Trull
Proper noun
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