Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A woman prostitute.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To trundle.
- n. A low vagrant strumpet; a drab; a trollop.
- n. A girl; a lass; a wench.
Wiktionary
- n. A female prostitute or harlot.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A drab; a strumpet; a harlot; a trollop.
- n. obsolete A girl; a wench; a lass.
Etymologies
- From German Trulle. (Wiktionary)
- Perhaps from German Trulle, from Middle High German trulle; akin to Old Norse troll, creature, troll. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Nay, even the tipsy crew at Bacchus's affected to treat her name with scorn: -- "The girl had made much noise about being called a trull, as if many a better than she wasn't one; and, after all, what was the prudish wench?”
“Perhaps for once he'd wisely spent his coin on an honest trull.”
“He tells his naively unbelieving sister which her father "gives his potent regiment to a trull.”
“Somebody born in the late 1890's might have viewed this couple as a trull and a roué, and been convinced they would burn in Hell for fornication.”
“I adored her just then, the trull, and I felt a kinship with her too, for she came from the Kingswood where I was raised.”
““Look here, sir,” says she, “at the conduck of your precious trull of a daughter — alone with this man, kissin and dandlin, and Lawd knows what besides.””
“And so, of course, when the Tofts trull was later brought to bed of not one, not two, but a whole warren of infant rabbits, that was all the scientific proof any man seemed to need.”
Asimov's Science Fiction
“‘Yes,’ shouted the captain, ‘his wife — a trull — a common — —’”
“In fact, he was probably toasting his good fortune by bedding some pert-breasted, doe-eyed trull, who would offer him no trouble, no lectures, nothing but pleasure.”
“And if I were so disposed, where would I find aught but a toothless village trull?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘trull’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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azd's Words
adamantine, abatial, ablate, ablative, abrogate, accretive, acromegaly, acrostic, actinism, actinic, acuity, adduce and 968 more...
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Outlander series words
A place for me to keep words I found (or found anew) while reading Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series. (Culling my enormous "Learned (or Encountered) in Reading" list.)
gralloch, yeuk, corpse-candle, saprophytic, baldachin, Kermanshah, celandine, tynchal, quaich, mesentery, basidium, dittany and 244 more...
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ulyssean
... as in "by James Joyce"
stately, plump, aloft, gurgling, untonsured, chrysostomos, jowl, parapet, jesuit, indigestion, scutter, noserag and 688 more...
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Let's talk about sex
A collection of words about doing the nasty.
prurient, odalisque, soubrette, gravid, lochia, xenogamy, syngamy, zygote, pintle, hexaploid, seminal, hetaera and 232 more...
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dienekes's Words
chutzpah, lexicon, intrepid, pedagogical, schlemiel, schism, erudite, anathema, pugilist, jaunty, paradigm, automaton and 949 more...
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favorite words
sawbones, grackle, celadon, brio, loam, trull, mint, saliva, serape, frisson, impasto, reek and 547 more...
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Various
anthropophagus, trull, ubiquitous, conflagration, honorificabilitud..., floccinaucinihili..., parlecue, erinaceous, garrulous, nudiustertian, inaniloquent, hoary and 1 more...
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Ooooh, burn!
Obscure insults
dotard, nescient, goatsucker, scrofulous, faineant, pinguid, milquetoast, sleazo, varlet, jollux, rixatrix, sciolist and 46 more...
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Sluts, Bitches, and Goddesses
Words for women.
floozie, whore, cunt, tart, trull, ianfu, demimondaine, demimonde, ball-buster, ball-breaker, bar girl, b-girl and 84 more...
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Ulysses
Words from James Joyce's novel.
cozen, trull, beshrew, resile, auspicate, objurgate, quondam, aprosopia, catamenia, antelucan, serried, bemoil and 13 more...
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zander's Words
persiflage, skunk, gravel, pusillanimous, glum, swafern, flapjack, coinage, onyx, floozie, poeminous, bucolic and 47 more...
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Fireships and Fizgigs
This list is dedicated to names for women of easy virtue (basically prostitutes and "other women"). I have resisted making such a list until now; the abundance of such terms, and the relative pauci...
lightskirt, legby, parnel, poplet, punk, shortheel, doxy, drossel, fizgig, giglot, hiren, bawd and 80 more...
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Women
moll, slattern, girleen, quean, nubile, prenubile, daughterling, wench, strumpet, trull, torril, demoiselle and 4 more...
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Obscurities & Oddities
Words not for general usage, more trivia.
postilion., defenestration, zwieback, trull, élan vital, wind-broken
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chained_bear "'Mrs. Chisholm! Mrs. Bug!' I pleaded, but neither paid the least attention.
'Kittock! Mislearnit pilsh!' bellowed Mrs. Chisholm, jabbing madly with her broom....
'Ha! Ye pert trull!'"
—Diana Gabaldon, The Fiery Cross (NY: Bantam Dell, 2001), 330 Jan 20, 2010
zander A woman prostitute.
Perhaps from German Trulle, from Middle High German trulle; akin to Old Norse troll, creature, troll. Aug 1, 2009