Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A woman prostitute.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To trundle.
- noun A low vagrant strumpet; a drab; a trollop.
- noun A girl; a lass; a wench.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A drab; a strumpet; a harlot; a trollop.
- noun obsolete A girl; a wench; a lass.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A female
prostitute orharlot .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Nay, even the tipsy crew at Bacchus's affected to treat her name with scorn: -- "The girl had made much noise about being called a trull, as if many a better than she wasn't one; and, after all, what was the prudish wench?
The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849
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He tells his naively unbelieving sister which her father "gives his potent regiment to a trull."
Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia admin 2009
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He tells his naively unbelieving sister which her father "gives his potent regiment to a trull."
Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009
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Perhaps for once he'd wisely spent his coin on an honest trull.
More Conan Fan Fiction! Cromsblood 2010
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Perhaps for once he'd wisely spent his coin on an honest trull.
Archive 2010-02-01 Cromsblood 2010
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Somebody born in the late 1890's might have viewed this couple as a trull and a roué, and been convinced they would burn in Hell for fornication.
Archive 2009-08-01 Steve Perry 2009
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I adored her just then, the trull, and I felt a kinship with her too, for she came from the Kingswood where I was raised.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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I adored her just then, the trull, and I felt a kinship with her too, for she came from the Kingswood where I was raised.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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I adored her just then, the trull, and I felt a kinship with her too, for she came from the Kingswood where I was raised.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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“Look here, sir,” says she, “at the conduck of your precious trull of a daughter — alone with this man, kissin and dandlin, and Lawd knows what besides.”
zander commented on the word trull
A woman prostitute.
Perhaps from German Trulle, from Middle High German trulle; akin to Old Norse troll, creature, troll.
August 1, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word trull
"'Mrs. Chisholm! Mrs. Bug!' I pleaded, but neither paid the least attention.
'Kittock! Mislearnit pilsh!' bellowed Mrs. Chisholm, jabbing madly with her broom....
'Ha! Ye pert trull!'"
—Diana Gabaldon, The Fiery Cross (NY: Bantam Dell, 2001), 330
January 20, 2010