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▪ I. trolly, n.1|ˈtrɒlɪ|
Also 7–8 trolly-lolly.
[Cf. Flemish tralje, traalje, trellis, lattice, mesh, network (De Bo). Kant (q. 1882) is Flem. for ‘edge, border, lace, point’.]
1. Name of a kind of lace: see quots. Also attrib.
a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Trolly-lolly, coarse Lace once much in fashion, now worn only by the meaner sort. 1756Mrs. Dewes in Mrs. Delany's Life & Corr. (1861) III. 434 She is..dressed much better than I ever saw her. I fancy her friend Mrs. Egerton has vamped her up with a trolly hood. 1882Caulfeild & Saward Dict. Needlework 501 Trolly Laces..are Pillow Laces, made in Normandy, in Flanders, and in Buckinghamshire, and Devonshire,..their ground..is an imitation of the Antwerp Trolly Net or Point de Paris Ground, and is made with twists, while the pattern is outlined with a thick thread like that used in the old Flemish Laces, and known as Trolle Kant. 1891Cent. Dict. s.v. Trolley, Honiton lace made with a trolley ground. 1895Funk's Stand. Dict. s.v. Trolley, T[rolley]-thread, one of the threads outlining the pattern of trolley-lace.
2. [Perh. a different word: cf. trolleywags trousers (Barrère & Leland Dict. Slang)]. pl. Ladies' drawers or knickers. dial. and (schoolgirls') slang.
1891J. Baron Blegburn Dickshonary (rev. ed.) 68 Trollys (female underclothing). That's as near as th' payson'll come to th' meeanin' o' this word; aw co'em wimmen's treawsis, an' he co's 'em drawers, which is wheere they're kept. 1934B. Pym Diary 8 Jan. in Holt & Pym Very Private Eye (1984) i. 33, I bought a peach coloured vest and trollies to match. 1971M. Wober Eng. Girls' Boarding Schools vi. 148 Items of clothing earned names, thus ‘trolleys’ for underwear, ‘B squared’ for brassieres.
▪ II. trolly, n.2 dial.|ˈtrɒlɪ|
[Alteration of trollop n.: cf. also trull.]
= trollop n. 1. Also comb. in trolly-mog, trollimog [cf. moggy 2] in the same sense.
1851T. Sternberg Dial. & Folk-Lore Northants. 117 Trolly-mog, a dirty, slovenly female. 1854A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words & Phrases II. 357 Oh! what a trolly she is! 1876J. Hartley Yorksher Puddin 164 He's pickt up some idle trolly. 1901F. E. Taylor Folk-Speech S. Lancs. s.v. Troll, Trolly, a loose woman; a trull. 1925W. de la Mare Broomsticks 130 That old trollimog what lives in Hogges Bottom. 1974P. Wright Lang. Brit. Industry xvii. 163 Untidy housewives abound, judging by all the so-called slatterns, trolly-mogs, slovens and tosspots.
▪ III. trolly
variant of trolley. |