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Friday, September 03, 2004

Trollop

n. an idle, untidy woman; a slut; a whore.

The train hoots into the station and Gerry waves and points to Rose coming toward us from the far end of the train, Rose smiling away with her white teeth and lovely green dress. Gerry stops waving and mutters under his breath, Look at the walk on her, bitch hoor, streetwalker, flaghopper, trollop, and runs from the station.
--Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt

"You must stop all of this," Ignatius shouted to Dorian, who was winking at the cowboy. "Aside from the fact that I am witnessing a most egregious offense against taste and decency, I am also beginning to smother from the stench of glandular emissions and colgne."

"Oh, don't be so drab. They're just having fun."

"I am very sorry," Ignatius said in a business-like tone. "I am here tonight on a mission of the utmost seriousness. There is a girl who must be attended to, a bold and forward minx of a trollop. Now turn off that offensive music and quiet these sodomites. We must get down to brass tacks."
--Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

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