trot n.1
1. a prostitute, a promiscuous woman.
Eneados ‘Prologe’ Bk IV (1553) lxxiiii: Thou auld basard, leichhoure fy for schame [...] in sluggardy Out on the old trat, agit wyffe or dame. | ||
Thersytes (1550) C ii: Thou olde trotte, seyest thou any man come this waye well armed and weaponed and readye to fighte? | ||
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. | ||
‘Cambridg Libell’ in May & Bryson Verse Libel 337: The drvyling Droile, the Dyer’s draff, / A trott for droncken donne. | ||
Challenge (1593) 250: Away young Frie, that giues leawd Counsell nowe, Awaie old trotts, that sets young flesh to sale. | ||
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? | ||
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. | ||
Fables of Abstemius (1692) CCLXIII 237: How now Bold-Face, crys an Old Trot. | ||
Character of a Town Miss in 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. | ||
‘A New Dialogue’ in Bagford Ballads (1878) I 70: A fulsome Trot, and good for naught, / unless it be for that. | ||
View of London & Westminster (2nd part) 51: [in a list of prostitutes] Miss Trot [Is Visited] By a Colonel of the Army. | ||
Laugh and Be Fat 132: Damn Whores, I’d not give Three-pence for a T--t. | ||
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.
DSUE (8th edn) 1267/2: C.18–20. |
3. a fellow; esp. as old trot.
[ | Misogonus in (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]. | |
Midas I iv: Odsfish! th’old Trot is, more than usual, testy. | ||
DSUE (8th edn) 1266/2: from ca. 1919. |
4. (N.Z.) a woman.
Dict. of Provincialisms 178/1: Trot, A contemptuous name for an infirm old woman. | ||
(ref. to 1920s) Dict. of Kiwi Sl. 115/1: trot a woman, perhaps desired [...] c.1925. | ||
Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. [as cit. 1988]. |
5. see trots n. (1)