Abbess |
A madam |
Bawd |
A female pimp or madam |
Bawdy house |
A brothel |
Beard Splitter |
A pimp |
Bully |
A bouncer or security man |
Cully |
A dupe to women, a prostitute’s ‘john’ |
Dirty mort |
A whore |
Doxy |
A whore |
Fusty luggs |
Sluttish woman |
Gentry mort |
A gentlewoman |
Gimcrack |
A spruced up wench |
Gundiguts |
A fat man |
Hanger |
A short, work-a-day sword |
Harridan |
A worn out old woman, usually a bawd |
Husband (of a ship) |
A man who manages ships for the owners |
Jade |
A disreputable woman |
Jordan |
A chamber pot or toilet |
Kinchin cove |
A small man. Also orphaned children |
Link-boy |
A boy who carries a flaming torch to light the way for pedestrians at night (pre-street lamps) |
Madam Geneva |
Gin |
Macaroni |
A dandy |
Mackerel |
A bawd |
Mawkes |
A sluttish woman |
Moppet |
An ignorant woman |
Mother |
A madam |
Mountebank |
A charlatan |
Nimgimmer |
A doctor of venereal diseases |
Nun |
A whore |
Nunnery |
A brothel |
Privy |
A toilet/lavatory |
Queer mort |
A diseased strumpet |
Ratafee |
A sweet cordial flavoured with almonds |
Rum doxy |
A beautiful woman |
Slamkin |
A whore |
Slattern |
A sluttish woman |
Tarse |
The penis |
Trug |
A sorry sort of ordinary woman |
Van-neck |
Woman with large breasts |
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