trull
/tɹʌl/
trull noun: a female prostitute or harlot.
Noun (1)
trull (plural trulls)
- A female prostitute or harlot.
- Spayne then enamour'd with the Romane trull, / Calls all her forces, more then Atomies, / And tells Ill-fortunes ſtorie to the full; […]1595, Iruis [i.e., Gervase] Markham, The Most Honorable Tragedie of Sir Richard Grinuile, Knight, London: […] I. Roberts, for Richard Smith, →OCLC; republished in Edward Arber, editor, The Last Fight...
- ‘Hark'ee, child,’ says she, ‘is not that very young gentleman now in bed with some nasty trull or other?’1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC
Noun (2)
trull (plural trulls)
- A set of three special trump cards used in some Tarock games, having a higher value than the other trumps.
Proper noun capitalized: Trull
Trull (countable and uncountable, plural Trulls)
- A surname.
- A village and civil parish in Somerset, England, previously in Somerset West and Taunton district (OS grid ref ST2122).
Examples of trull in a sentence
- South of Delhi, Sahib, you know the saying—‘Rats are the men and trulls the women.’1888, Rudyard Kipling, “Dray Wara Yow Dee”, in In Black and White (A. H. Wheeler & Co.’s Indian Railway Library; no. 3), 5th edition...
- A trull for certain, then; but a trull reformed, long since come up in the world.2002, Peter Tonkin, One Head Too Many:
Synonyms of trull
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- callet
- cat
- chippy
- chromo
- cocotte
- comfort girl
- comfort woman
- creature of the night
- daughter of joy
- escort
- fille de joie
- floozie
- fornicatrix
- geebag
- good-time girl
- GRO
- 'ho
- hoer
- hoe
- hook
- hooker
- hustler
- Japayuki-san
- karayuki-san
- lady of leisure
- lady of light virtue
- lady of pleasure
- lady of the evening
- lady of the night
- loose woman
Forms of trull
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | trulls |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Trulls |
Origin of trull
From Middle English trul (“travel about”), from Old French troller, treiller (“to hunt”). Doublet of troll.
From French tous les trois (“all three”).
Words that rhyme with trull
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Questions about trull
- What does trull mean?
- Trull means a female prostitute or harlot.
- How do you use trull in a sentence?
- South of Delhi, Sahib, you know the saying—‘Rats are the men and trulls the women.’
- What part of speech is trull?
- Trull can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce trull?
- Trull is pronounced /tɹʌl/.
- What is the plural of trull?
- The plural of trull is trulls.
Words near trull in the dictionary
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