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

And right glad I am to be rid of such a trollop, drawing all the rapscallions of the port in here, and bringing my tavern into disrepute.”

From Athelstane Ford by Upward, Allen

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

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

"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