Meanings
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1
noun
old-fashioned and offensive: an insulting term for a woman regarded as sexually promiscuous or immoral
The play's rake calls his former lover a trollop, exposing his contempt for her.
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2
noun
old-fashioned and offensive: a woman regarded as dirty, untidy, or slovenly
The landlady unfairly called the untidy tenant a trollop.
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3
verb
rare: to move about or behave in a sluggish, untidy, or slovenly way
The comic idler trolloped from room to room without finishing a single task.
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Etymology
The origin is uncertain. Trollop may be connected with older verbs such as troll or Middle English trollen, 'to wander or roll about,' and may also have been influenced by German Trulle, a disparaging term for a woman. The sexual insult developed alongside an earlier slovenly-woman sense.