Synonyms for trollop


Grammar : Noun
Spell : trol-uh p
Phonetic Transcription : ˈtrɒl əp


Définition of trollop

Origin :
  • 1610s, "slovenly woman," probably from troll (v.) in sense of "roll about, wallow."
  • [A] certain Anne Hayward, wife of Gregory Hayward of Beighton, did in the parishe church of Beighton aforesaid in the time of Divine Service or Sermon there, and when the Minister was reading & praying, violently & boisterously presse & enter into the seat or place where one Elizabeth, wife of Robert Spurlinir, was quietly at her Devotion & Duty to Almighty God and then and there did quarrel chide & braule & being evilly & inalitiously bent did use then and there many rayleing opprobrious Speeches & Invectives against the said Elizabeth calling her Tripe & Trallop, to the great disturbance both of the Minister and Congregation. [Archdeaconry of Sudbury, Suffolk, Court Proceedings, 1682]
  • noun loose woman
Example sentences :
  • "But Christian Killip is nothing but a trollop, anyway, sir," said Csar.
  • Extract from : « The Manxman » by Hall Caine
  • We have been Dickens'd and Trollop'd, and it should do us good.
  • Extract from : « Scientific American magazine Vol 2. No. 3 Oct 10 1846 » by Various
  • I should think you'd want to hide your face in shame, you trollop.
  • Extract from : « Paul Prescott's Charge » by Horatio Alger
  • "She's no more of a trollop than you are," said he, with spirit.
  • Extract from : « Paul Prescott's Charge » by Horatio Alger
  • No, I am afraid not—if you have resumed your principles, Mr. Trollop.
  • Extract from : « The Gilded Age, Complete » by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner
  • Now Trollop ought to be on our side, for he is a friend of the negro.
  • Extract from : « The Gilded Age, Complete » by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner
  • Oh, let us come out and be frank with each other: I know you, Mr. Trollop.
  • Extract from : « The Gilded Age, Complete » by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner
  • Are you the trollop that has the impudence to come for my place?
  • Extract from : « The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., in Nine Volumes, Volume the Second » by Samuel Johnson
  • They'd like to live in hotels, and trollop about the streets day and night.
  • Extract from : « In the Year of Jubilee » by George Gissing
  • In the opening scenes she was the trollop, no less, that Fanny was.
  • Extract from : « Interpreters » by Carl Van Vechten

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