trollop

American  

[trol-uhp] / ˈtrɒl əp /

noun

Older Use.

1. an immoral or sexually promiscuous woman (now often used facetiously).

2. a prostitute.

3. an untidy or slovenly woman; slattern.

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trollop British  

/ ˈtrɒləp /

noun

1. a promiscuous woman, esp a prostitute

2. an untidy woman; slattern

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Other Word Forms

• trollopy adjective

Etymology

Origin of trollop

First recorded in 1605–15; earlier trollops; perhaps akin to troll ¹

Example Sentences

Following the group's 1976 arrest one month after Mao's death, Jiang was reviled as a "white-boned demon," a perfidious serpent, a harridan and a trollop.

From Time Magazine Archive

"I can't trollop up and down stairs as I used to when I fust took this house five-an'-twenty year ago, and pore Mr. Leadbatter—" and here followed reminiscences long since in their hundredth edition.

From The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes by Zangwill, Israel

In the kitchen things were not more orderly; M. M.'s lean maid was making merry with the bailiff, and a fat and dreadful trollop with one eye—tipsy, noisy, and pugnacious.

From The House by the Church-Yard by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

"I can't trollop up and down stairs as I used to when I fust took this house five-an'-twenty year ago, and pore Mr. Leadbatter——" and here followed reminiscences long since in their hundredth edition.

From Merely Mary Ann by Zangwill, Israel

It must here be observed that Jacques Collin spoke French like a Spanish trollop, blundering over it in such a way as to make his answers almost unintelligible, and to require them to be repeated.

From Scenes from a Courtesan's Life by Balzac, Honoré de