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trugging-house

trugging-house noun: a brothel.

Noun

trugging-house (plural trugging-houses)

  1. (obsolete) A brothel.
    • one of those houses of good hospitality whereunto persons resort, commonly called a trugging-house, or to be plain, a whorehouse1592, Robert Greene, A Disputation Between a Hee Conny-Catcher and a Shee Conny-Catcher

Forms of trugging-house

pluraltrugging-houses

Origin of trugging-house

See trug.

Questions about trugging-house

What does trugging-house mean?
Trugging-house means a brothel.
What part of speech is trugging-house?
Trugging-house is a noun.
What is the plural of trugging-house?
The plural of trugging-house is trugging-houses.

Words near trugging-house in the dictionary

  1. trug
  2. Truganina
  3. Truganini
  4. trugg
  5. truggies
  6. trugging-house
  7. trugging-houses
  8. truggs
  9. truggy
  10. Trughanacmy
  11. Trugrede

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