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