Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Slovenly; sluttish; trollopish.

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Examples

  • He evokes a cast of one "awkward booby", one "old grumbletonian", one "tall, trapesing, trolloping, talkative maypole" and one obliging girl with cheeks "as red as a pulpit cushion".

    She Stoops to Conquer; Henry V, The Winter's Tale – review 2012

  • When you ` re trolloping about with all these women, there are diseases and all kinds of things that you can bring back to your home.

    CNN Transcript Dec 15, 2009 2009

  • Or did he just feel silly trolloping around the country at his age and decide to go home?

    Dino: That's Amore 2008

  • Again, we have that she was ‘a wanton hussy’; her ‘trolloping muse’ shamefacedly ‘wallowed in the mire’; but finally the historian is bound to confess ‘she was never dull’.

    A Memoir of Mrs. Behn 2002

  • "Yes, you abominable woman," cried the traveller, "many have seen the like before, and all will yet see the like again, that have aught to do with your trolloping sex!"

    Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North Samuel Rutherford Crockett

  • The traipsing, trolloping humor of spring is in our veins; we feel that we must be about felling an aurochs or a narwhal for breakfast.

    Mince Pie Christopher Morley 1923

  • She seems thanking the good old Dutch Deity of cleanliness and respectability that she herself is not like this poor trolloping giantess, degraded from the embrace of ocean and the unblemished circle of the sea.

    Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned Christopher Morley 1923

  • “The estate is just about as involved and mixed-up as an estate can well get, to the best of my knowledge; and I haven’t helped it any by what he let me have for this infernal headlight scheme which has finally gone trolloping forever to where the woodbine twineth.

    Chapter 30 1918

  • When the Society was formed, a number of women came out from Algonquin to organise, though Mrs. Johnnie Dunn did not see why in common sense they couldn't form a society themselves without a lot of women from town trolloping out to show them how to do something they all knew how to do already.

    In Orchard Glen Mary Esther Miller MacGregor 1918

  • May, what went out trolloping along the roads 'stead of she biding at home to mind the house and child!

    Six Plays Florence Henrietta Fisher Darwin 1892

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