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Trollop

Definition: Trollop

Trollop

Noun

1. A woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "trollop" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1664. (references)

Note: Trollop \Trol"lop\, noun. [From Troll to roll, to stroll; but compare to also Trull.]. (Websters 1913)


Specialty Definition: Trollop

DomainDefinition

Slang in 1811

TROLLOP. A lusty coarse sluttish woman. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Trollop

Synonyms: bawd (n), cocotte (n), cyprian (n), fancy woman (n), harlot (n), lady of pleasure (n), prostitute (n), sporting lady (n), tart (n), whore (n), woman of the street (n), working girl (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Trollop

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Libertine

Adulteress, advoutress, courtesan, prostitute, strumpet, harlot, whore, punk, fille de joie; woman, woman of the town; streetwalker, Cyprian, miss, piece; frail sisterhood; demirep, wench, trollop, trull, baggage, hussy, drab, bitch, jade, skit, rig, quean, mopsy, slut, minx, harridan; unfortunate, unfortunate female, unfortunate woman; woman of easy virtue; (unchaste); wanton, fornicatress; Jezebel, Messalina, Delilah, Thais, Phryne, Aspasia, Lais, lorette, cocotte, petite dame, grisette; demimonde; chippy; sapphist; spiritual wife; white slave.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Trollop

English words defined with "trollop": Trull. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Trollop

DomainTitle

Books

  • Shakespeare's Trollop (reference)

  • Tales of All Countries: Second Series (Penguin Trollop, No 14) (reference)

  • Tall Timber Trollop (Spur Giant Special Edition) (reference)

  • The Claverings (The Penguin Trollop, No 22) (reference)

  • The Land-Leaguers (The Penguin Trollop, No 51) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Trollop

"Trollop" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 89.47% of the time. "Trollop" is used about 19 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)89.47%1785,106
Lexical Verb (infinitive)5.26%1339,140
Lexical Verb (base form)5.26%1339,140
                    Total100.00%19N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Trollop

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

trollop

15
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Trollop

Language Translations for "trollop"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

prostitutë (bawd, call girl, drab, harlot, hooker, light-o'-love, Moll, Molly, night hawk, night walker, prostitute, streetwalker, tramp, trull), njeri i shkujdesur (happy go lucky). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مومس (baggage, bawd, bitch, cocotte, courtesan, courtezan, drab, harlot, moll, prostitute, punk, scrubber, slattern, slut, strumpet, tart, whore), ‏إمرأة قذرة (draggle-tail, slag, slut), ‏بغي (harlot, professional, punk, slut, wench). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

развратница (jezebel, wantonness), мърла (slattern), проститутка (doxy, drab, fancy girl, fancy woman, harlot, hooker, night bird, night walker, prostitute, punk, scarlet woman, strumpet, tart, tootsy, tramp, trot, trull, unfortunate, wench, whore). (various references)

   

Czech

  

coura (broad, draggle-tail, scruff, slattern, slut, tramp). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

snol (hooker, prostitute, slut, whore), sloerie (slut), slet (slut), lichtekooi (hooker, slut, whore). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

malĉastulino (slut). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

زن هرزه (Bitch, Broad, Jade, Tart), زن شلخته (Drab, Slut), زن بندوبار, جنده (Hack, Townswoman). (various references)

   

French

  

traînée (trail, train, tramp), roulure, catin. (various references)

   

Frisian

  

slet (slut), belle (slut). (various references)

   

German

  

Schlampe (frump, rag bag, scruff, slag, slattern, slob, sloppy person, sloven, slut). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

πόρνη (call girl, harlot, hooker, prostitute, slut, strumpet, tart, trull, wench, whore), πουτάνα (hooker, prostitute, tart, whore), ακατάστατη γυναίκα (slattern, slut), τσούλα (bitch, slut). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מופקרת (prostitute, whore). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

prostituált (common prostitute, common woman, drab, fille de joie, hooker, pinnace, prostitute, punter, street girl, strumpet, whore), lotyó (moll, slag, slut). (various references)

   

Italian

  

sciattona (slattern, slut). (various references)

   

Manx

  

trussyl, trouise (crowd, dowdy, literary garbage, rot, rubbish, slattern, sloven, trumpery; trash, trumpery; trash of person), stritlag (drab, jilt, slattern). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

olloptray

   

Portuguese

  

mulher desmazelada (slattern, slut), mulher desleixada. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

buleandrã (drab, draggle-tail, duster, rag, rags, rubber, scamp, shred, slattern, slut, sticks). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

неряха (draggle-tail, messy, pig, slattern, slob, sloven, slut, traipse, trapse). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

draighlichd (a trollop). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

drolja (floozy, slut, strumpet, trull), aljkavuša (slut). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

ramera (baggage, harlot, hustler, slut, strumpet), pindonga (gadabout). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sürtük (bimbo, minx, slattern, slut, tramp), pasaklı olmak, pasaklı kadın (dowdy, drab, draggletail, flea-bag, slattern, slut, untidy woman), fahişelik etmek, fahişe (bitch, bum, call girl, courtesan, courtezan, drab, fancy woman, floozy, harlot, hooker, hustler, Moll, night walker, painted woman, pro, prostitute, scarlet woman, slag, slut, streetwalker, strumpet, trull, whore). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

нечепура (draggle-tail, grub, pig, slattern, sloven, slut), повія (baggage, bawd, call girl, cat, chippy, harlot, jilt, quean, streetwalker, strumpet, unfortunate, wagtail, whore, witch). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

người đ n b nhếch nhác gái điếm, người đ n b lôi thôi lếch thếch (draggle-tail, slattern), đĩ (harlot, molly, strumpet, trull, whore). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Trollop

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

cunnus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Trollop

Derivations

Words beginning with "trollop": trollops, trollopy. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Trollop" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Tollo, Treloup, Troglio, Trollac, trollen, trollip, trollo, trollope, trollopy, trollup, trolop, trolup, trullo. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Trollop"

Words rhyming with "trollop" (pronounced 'Trol"lop'): Collop, Dallop, Escallop, lollop, Orlop, Shallop. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Trollop

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: rolltop.

Words within the letters "l-l-o-o-p-r-t"

-2 letters: orlop, troll, troop.

-3 letters: loop, loot, plot, poll, polo, pool, poor, port, roll, root, rotl, roto, toll, tool, toro, trop.

-4 letters: loo, lop, lot, oot, opt, ort, pol, pot, pro, rot, too, top, tor.

-5 letters: lo, op, or, to.

 Words containing the letters "l-l-o-o-p-r-t"
 

+1 letter: trollops, trollopy.

 

+2 letters: allotrope, allotropy.

 

+3 letters: allotropes, allotropic, pollinator, portabello, portobello.

 

+4 letters: allotropies, bulletproof, chloroplast, comptroller, petrodollar, pollinators, portabellos, portobellos, protocolled.

 

+5 letters: chloroplasts, comptrollers, petrodollars, petrological, protocolling, tropological.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Translations: Ancient
9. Derivations
10. Rhymes
11. Anagrams
12. Bibliography


  

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