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prossie slang (orig. Austral.).|ˈprɒsɪ, -zɪ|
Also prossy, prozzy.
[f. pross + -y6, -ie.]
= pross.
1941Baker Dict. Austral. Slang 57 Pros, prossie, a prostitute. 1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §507/2 Prostitute,..pross, prossy. 1945B. Naughton in C. Madge Pilot Papers I. 102 The average prossy is very soft-hearted at the bottom of her. 1961H. S. Turner Something Extraordinary vii. 144 She reserves her whole-hearted contempt for the ‘prossies’. Prostitution is wrong. 1971F. Raphael Who were You with Last Night? 74 A shipmate of mine had this gag... ‘What's in a prossy's telegram?’ Answer, ‘Come at once.’ 1971J. Wainwright Dig Grave 107 Gawd! A prozzy with pretentious tastes in T.V. drama. |