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- noun slang, UK
Amateur , or often part-time, femaleprostitute in 19th centuryLondon . (Dolly was one of the slang terms forpenis ).
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Examples
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But when Hugh called her a little dollymop, her large, black eyes flashed angrily upon him.
Jessie Carlton The Story of a Girl who Fought with Little Impulse, the Wizard, and Conquered Him Daniel Wise 1855
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Sam first fell for her because she was a summer's day after the drab dollymops and gays who had constituted his past sexual experience.
--John Fowles, 1969, The French Lieutenant's Woman
"Drab", "dollymop" and "gay" were all words for "prostitute" in the 1860s, when this book is set.
May 17, 2009