单词 | trolloping |
释义 | trollopingadj. 1. a. Of a woman or girl: that behaves like a trollop (trollop n. 1a); sexually provocative or promiscuous; (in early use also) that moves in an ungainly or boisterous manner (cf. trollop v. 1a). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [adjective] > having specific manner of walking > clumsy or bounding trolloping1701 lolloping1745 society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [adjective] > promiscuous harlotry1579 light o' love1589 trolloping1701 promiscuous1804 wutless1853 slutty1912 make-out1949 slack1951 swinging1964 bed-hopping1979 bonking1987 1701 T. Baker Humour of Age iv. 47 A parcel of stiff City Ladies..and trolloping Exchange-Wenches. 1765 Memoirs Coquet ii. 53 Let a man have a seraglio of trolloping flirts. 1773 O. Goldsmith She stoops to Conquer i. 14 The daughter, a tall trapesing, trolloping, talkative maypole. 1835 W. Deacon Exile of Erin II. xxxii. 69 What business have you to be giggling at every trolloping hussy you meet on the road? 1881 Theatre July 11 That rattling, rollicking, trapesing, trolloping, brazen-faced, brazen-tongued Mænad-Thalia. 1932 Gastonia (N. Carolina) Daily Gaz. 1Apr. 6/3 The ways of..those ‘trolloping girls you see on State street, all legs and lipstick’. 2015 N. Simone & A. Abrams Lights, Love & Lip Gloss xxi. 200 That trolloping tramp attacked me! b. Chiefly of a woman: negligent or lazy with regard to personal appearance or household cleanliness; slovenly, dirty, dowdy. Now Scottish and English regional. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirty person > [adjective] sluttishc1405 sluttya1425 slut?a1513 drabbish1566 drabby1612 sordid1613 slithy1622 sleathy1652 slattering1673 slatternly1677 slattern1683 trapish1703 slammerkin1742 trolloping1770 unheppen1790 trollopy1800 slatternish1833 haveless1868 1770 Gen. Evening Post 22 Mar. Our dirty, trolloping neighbours the French. 1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet III. iv. 98 Trolloping things our mothers must have looked, with long square-cut coats, lacking collars. 1895 Evening Tel. (Dundee) 8 June Cleanin' up that trollopin' Mrs Bain's hoose. 1910 Country Life 19 Nov. 726/2 One of they trolloping giglets as can't keep the holes out of her stockings, let alone his. ΚΠ 1703 Sir Giddy Whim iii. 51 Tie me these same trolloping things under your Chin. Keep your self warm. 1733 Duchess of Queensberry Let. 10 Nov. in J. Swift Wks. (1841) II. 715/1 I did not cut and curl my hair like a sheep's head, or wear one of their trolloping sacks. 1851 Chambers's Edinb. Jrnl. 1 Nov. 280/1 Let there simply be a reduction of the present nuisance, an abbreviation of those trolloping skirts. 1876 R. Broughton Joan I. i. iv. 73 With such a trolloping length of uncurled curls down their backs. 1909 M. A. P. 17 July 84/1 Shackled to a perambulator, and with a boy of tender years clinging to her trolloping petticoats. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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