shippie

/ ˈʃɪpɪ /

noun

slang, a prostitute who solicits at a port

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It would be crying for joy and grief, you know—joy that my old shippie should show so much pluck as to right herself like a race-horse, and grief to think she should go and stave the Arrandoon.