单词 | streetwalker |
释义 | streetwalkern. 1. A person who walks in the street; (more generally) an ordinary person, a member of the public. Now rare.Sometimes applied to a person whose work or trade involves walking in the street. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > [noun] > one going on foot > in the streets streetwalker1567 vicambulist1822 1567 G. Fenton tr. M. Bandello Certaine Tragicall Disc. f. 212v Suche gigges, and pratlinge houswiues, as can not contente theym selues with the ayre of the house..oneless she sit at the doare, as though her exercyse were onelye to menteyne chatt wythe the streete walkers. 1618 G. Mynshul Ess. Prison 29 The Maister of a Prison is the primum mobile, in that euerlasting motion (a Iayle) and those key-turners, and street-walkers, are the petty and necessary slauish wheeles. 1673 R. Leigh Transproser Rehears'd 33 To follow our Street-walker with a full Cry of Boys and Women at his heels. 1737 J. Swift Proposal Badges to Beggars 6 But all Street-walkers, and Shop-keepers bear an equal Share in this hourly Vexation. 1849 W. M. Thackeray Let. 29 June (1945) II. 554 The London literary street walkers must come back to the flags. 1872 W. W. Reade Martyrdom of Man 497 Athens, where the milestones are master-pieces, and the street-walkers poets and philosophers. 2. A prostitute who seeks clients in the street. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > a prostitute meretrixOE whoreOE soiled dovea1250 common womanc1330 putec1384 bordel womanc1405 putaina1425 brothelc1450 harlot?a1475 public womanc1510 naughty pack?1529 draba1533 cat1535 strange woman1535 stew1552 causey-paikera1555 putanie?1566 drivelling1570 twigger1573 punka1575 hackney1579 customer1583 commodity1591 streetwalker1591 traffic1591 trug1591 hackster1592 polecat1593 stale1593 mermaid1595 medlar1597 occupant1598 Paphian1598 Winchester goose1598 pagan1600 hell-moth1602 aunt1604 moll1604 prostitution1605 community1606 miss1606 night-worm1606 bat1607 croshabell1607 prostitute1607 pug1607 venturer1607 nag1608 curtal1611 jumbler1611 land-frigate1611 walk-street1611 doll-common1612 turn-up1612 barber's chaira1616 commonera1616 public commonera1616 trader1615 venturea1616 stewpot1616 tweak1617 carry-knave1623 prostibule1623 fling-dusta1625 mar-taila1625 night-shadea1625 waistcoateera1625 night trader1630 coolera1632 meretrician1631 painted ladya1637 treadle1638 buttock1641 night-walker1648 mob?1650 lady (also girl, etc.) of the game1651 lady of pleasure1652 trugmullion1654 fallen woman1659 girlc1662 high-flyer1663 fireship1665 quaedama1670 small girl1671 visor-mask1672 vizard-mask1672 bulker1673 marmalade-madam1674 town miss1675 town woman1675 lady of the night1677 mawks1677 fling-stink1679 Whetstone whore1684 man-leech1687 nocturnal1693 hack1699 strum1699 fille de joie1705 market-dame1706 screw1725 girl of (the) town1733 Cytherean1751 street girl1764 monnisher1765 lady of easy virtue1766 woman (also lady) of the town1766 kennel-nymph1771 chicken1782 stargazer1785 loose fish1809 receiver general1811 Cyprian1819 mollya1822 dolly-mop1834 hooker1845 charver1846 tail1846 horse-breaker1861 professional1862 flagger1865 cocodette1867 cocotte1867 queen's woman1871 common prostitute1875 joro1884 geisha1887 horizontal1888 flossy1893 moth1896 girl of the pavement1900 pross1902 prossie1902 pusher1902 split-arse mechanic1903 broad1914 shawl1922 bum1923 quiff1923 hustler1924 lady of the evening1924 prostie1926 working girl1928 prostisciutto1930 maggie1932 brass1934 brass nail1934 mud kicker1934 scupper1935 model1936 poule de luxe1937 pro1937 chromo1941 Tom1941 pan-pan1949 twopenny upright1958 scrubber1959 slack1959 yum-yum girl1960 Suzie Wong1962 mattress1964 jamette1965 ho1966 sex worker1971 pavement princess1976 parlour girl1979 crack whore1990 1591 R. Greene Notable Discouery of Coosenage f. 10 They should see how these street-walkers will iet in rich garded gownes. 1721 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius No. 28. 150 Common strumpets, and mercenary street-walkers. 1762 S. Johnson Let. 21 Dec. (1992) I. 214 Mr. Levet has married a street-walker. 1846 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. in Wks. I. 301/2 Lady Fosset..had been a street-walker, a kept mistress, and an actress. 1864 J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) Social evil, a name beginning to be applied to street-walkers in consequence of the articles in the newspapers being so headed. 1894 W. T. Stead If Christ came to Chicago 368 Where arbitrary power of arrest is given..the street-walker proves a great revenue to the policeman. 1922 A. Woollcott Shouts & Murmurs ii. 57 The Actor and the Streetwalker... The two oldest professions in the world—ruined by amateurs. 1969 ‘Petronius’ London Unexpurgated iii. 48 Tourists coming to London were embarrassed by the streetwalkers. 2006 Washington Post 19 Jan. a14/1 The new policy..comes down harder on ‘curb crawlers’, drivers who solicit sex from streetwalkers and drive off with them. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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