| 单词 | trollopy-looking |
| 释义 | > as lemmastrollopy-looking 2. Chiefly of a woman: negligent or lazy with regard to personal appearance or household cleanliness; slovenly, untidy, dowdy. Also in trollopy-looking adj. Now rare (Scottish regional in later use). 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 1800 E. Hamilton Mem. Mod. Philosphers III. i. 36 I would not be seen walking with such a trollopy quiz for the vorld. 1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park III. vii. 143 A trollopy-looking maid-servant..stept forward. 1884 North-eastern Daily Gaz. (Middlesbrough) 29 Dec. Trollopy women who instead of neglecting their homes for gossip and drink, now neglect them to play tambourines. 1992 in M. Bennett Sc. Customs 261 I have never seen such trollopy lassies! Long, black, wide coats that hae neither shape nor form. 2002 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 26 Aug. 13 Post-war wearers of the kilt..have them..far too long... One only needs to look..at today's wedding photographs to see how trollopy some kilt-wearers look. < as lemmas |
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