call girln.
/ˈkɔːl ɡəːl/, U.S. /ˈkɔl ˌɡərl/, /ˈkɑl ˌɡərl/ Originally U.S.
1. A female telephone operator. Now rare.
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1892 Rev. of Rev. Feb. 57/1 You know the telephone exchange. Simply a call-girl sits there, but how useful she is!
1934 Times of India 29 Sept. 14 A young woman who operated the switchboard..revealed that..more women than men attempt to talk to Mae [West]. ‘They attempt every method under the sun,’ explained the call girl.
1992 1990 Census of Population: Classified Index Industries & Occupations (U.S. Bureau of Census) O-40 Telephone Operators..Call girl.
2. A female prostitute, spec. one who makes appointments by telephone as opposed to soliciting on the street. Cf. call boy n. 5.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > a prostitute > who makes appointments by telephone
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1912 St. Paul Med. Jrnl. 14 195 We have the problems of the dance hall, hotel vice, street-walking, and the call girl.
1940 F. MacIsaac in Detective Tales Apr. 68/1 (title of story) Call girls die young.
1951 E. Kefauver Crime in Amer. (1952) xvii. 193 The hotel..has shown up in some of the call-girl operations.
1986 S. Churcher N.Y. Confidential viii. 181 ‘She booked clients that other agencies had blacklisted,’ says Kathy, the madam at a rival call-girl service.
1995 C. B. Divakaruni Arranged Marriage (1997) 143 A woman who was, by her own admission, no better than a call girl.
2015 Daily Mirror 3 Feb. 18 Defence lawyers flatly denied the charges..—insisting he was unaware the women were call girls.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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