trull

American  

[truhl] / trʌl /

noun

1. Archaic. a prostitute; strumpet.

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trull British  

/ trʌl /

noun

1. archaic a prostitute; harlot

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Etymology

Origin of trull

First recorded in 1510–20; of uncertain origin; trollop, German Trulle “loose woman”

Example Sentences

Can any beggar's trull look worse than I?'

From Popular Tales from the Norse by Dasent, George Webbe

Since sonnets thus in bundles are imprest, And every drudge doth dull our satiate ear, Think'st thou my love shall in those rags be drest That every dowdy, every trull doth wear?

From Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Idea, Fidesa and Chloris by Crow, Martha Foote

Thus every Jack sticks to his own Jill; every tinker esteems his own trull; and the hob-nailed suiter prefers Joan the milk-maid before any of my lady's daughters.

From In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts by Erasmus, Desiderius

It may be observed, that trull was not, in our author's time, a term of mere infamy, but a word of slight contempt, as wench is now.

From Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies by Sherbo, Arthur

Since Sonnets thus in bundles are imprest, And euery drudge doth dull our satiate eare, Think'st thou my loue, shall in those rags be drest That euery dowdie, euery trull doth weare?

From Minor Poems of Michael Drayton by Brett, Cyril