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dolly-mop

dolly-mop is the alternative form of dollymop.

Meaning of dollymop

Noun

dollymop (plural dollymops)

  1. (UK, slang) An amateur, often part-time, female prostitute in 19th-century London.
    • Those women who, for the sake of distinguishing them from the professionals, I must call amateurs, are generally spoken of as “Dollymops.” Now many servant-maids, nurse-maids who go with children into the Parks, shop girls and milliners who may be met with at the various “dancing academies,” so...1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, published 1861

Forms of dolly-mop

pluraldolly-mops

Questions about dolly-mop

What is dolly-mop the alternative form of?
Dolly-mop is the alternative form of dollymop.

Words near dolly-mop in the dictionary

  1. dolly zooms
  2. dolly-bird
  3. dolly-birds
  4. dolly-boy
  5. dolly-boys
  6. dolly-mop
  7. dollybird
  8. dollybirds
  9. dollying
  10. dollyman
  11. dollymen

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