tallywomann.
1. A woman who sells goods on credit: cf. tallyman n. 1.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > selling > seller > [noun] > one who sells on hire purchase
tallyman1654
tallywoman1728
tally-master1851
1728 J. Gay Beggar's Opera iii. v. 44 Mrs. Diana Trapes, the Tally-Woman.
1894 Daily Chron. 11 June (Funk) Her dress she gets by paying a small weekly sum of 2d. or 3d. to what is called a ‘tallyman’ or ‘tallywoman’.
2. slang. A woman who ‘lives tally’ with a man (see tally n.1 4b): correlative to tallyman n. 3.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > types of marriage custom or practice > [noun] > cohabitation > one who
star boarder1875
tallyman1876
tallywoman1890
bide-in1916
bidie-in1916
cohabiter1942
shack-job1946
cohabitee1955
shack-up1969
live-in1977
1890 Leeds Mercury 11 Aug. in Notes & Queries 7th Ser. X. 229/1 I thought she was his tally-woman lately.
1890 Notes & Queries 7th Ser. X. 297/1 The terms tally-man and tally-woman, indicating a man and woman living together without marriage, are used in mining districts.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
<
n.1728