trull
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of trull
First recorded in 1510–20; of uncertain origin; trollop, German Trulle “loose woman”
Example Sentences
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Can any beggar's trull look worse than I?'
From Popular Tales from the Norse by Dasent, George Webbe
A man! we're mistaken; a man has manners: the awkward creature is some tinker's trull, in a periwig.
From The Inconstant by Farquhar, George
It may be observed, that trull was not, in our author's time, a term of mere infamy, but a word of slight contempt, as wench is now.
From Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies by Sherbo, Arthur
Since sonnets thus in bundles are imprest, And every drudge doth dull our satiate ear, Think'st thou my love shall in those rags be drest That every dowdy, every trull doth wear?
From Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Idea, Fidesa and Chloris by Crow, Martha Foote
The trolds obtained a character similar to that of the more modern succubus, and have left their impression upon Elizabethan English in the word "trull."
From Elizabethan Demonology by Spalding, Thomas Alfred
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