Green’s Dictionary of Slang

trot n.1

[SE trot, a hag, an old woman with roots in MHG Drude, sorceress, incubus and Late MHG trut(e), female monster]

1. a prostitute, a promiscuous woman.

[Scot]G. Douglas Eneados ‘Prologe’ Bk IV (1553) lxxiiii: Thou auld basard, leichhoure fy for schame [...] in sluggardy Out on the old trat, agit wyffe or dame.
[UK]Thersytes (1550) C ii: Thou olde trotte, seyest thou any man come this waye well armed and weaponed and readye to fighte?
[UK]C. Bansley Pryde and Abuse of Women line 45: Sponge up youre vysage, olde bounsynge trotte, And trick it with the beste, Tyll you tricke and trotte youre selfe To the devyls trounsynge neste.
[UK]‘Cambridg Libell’ in May & Bryson Verse Libel 337: The drvyling Droile, the Dyer’s draff, / A trott for droncken donne.
T. Churchyard Challenge (1593) 250: Away young Frie, that giues leawd Counsell nowe, Awaie old trotts, that sets young flesh to sale.
[UK]Rowley, Dekker & Ford Witch of Edmonton IV i: omn.: Are you come, you old Trot? o. bank.: You hot Whore, must we fetch you with fire in your tail?
[UK]R. Speed Counter-Rat F2: [An Old gray Rat] Penny pots Of Sacke, which fall to him by lots, Payd him at weekes end by th’ old Trots, For shillings Each Monday lent them.
[UK]R. L’Estrange Fables of Abstemius (1692) CCLXIII 237: How now Bold-Face, crys an Old Trot.
[UK]Character of a Town Miss in C. Hindley Old Bk Collector’s Misc. 7: An Old Trot, that understands the Town, and goes between Party and Party, and a French Merchant to supply her with Dildo’s.
[UK] ‘A New Dialogue’ in Ebsworth Bagford Ballads (1878) I 70: A fulsome Trot, and good for naught, / unless it be for that.
[UK]View of London & Westminster (2nd part) 51: [in a list of prostitutes] Miss Trot [Is Visited] By a Colonel of the Army.
[UK]Laugh and Be Fat 132: Damn Whores, I’d not give Three-pence for a T--t.
J.G. Cozzens Guard of Honor 509: ‘Damndest thing I ever heard of. Lying down you’re a trot; that’s evil; that’s what bad girls do for money. Standing up, that won’t count; our heroes, that’s in aid of; that’s for free’.

2. the vagina.

[UK]Partridge DSUE (8th edn) 1267/2: C.18–20.

3. a fellow; esp. as old trot.

[[UK]Misogonus in Farmer (1906) III ii: He will not deny it again, his arse shall surely quake; It will make the old trot believe his skin I will flay].
[Ire]K. O’Hara Midas I iv: Odsfish! th’old Trot is, more than usual, testy.
[UK]Partridge DSUE (8th edn) 1266/2: from ca. 1919.

4. (N.Z.) a woman.

[UK]W. Holloway Dict. of Provincialisms 178/1: Trot, A contemptuous name for an infirm old woman.
[NZ] (ref. to 1920s) McGill Dict. of Kiwi Sl. 115/1: trot a woman, perhaps desired [...] c.1925.
[NZ]McGill Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. [as cit. 1988].

5. see trots n. (1)