Green’s Dictionary of Slang

a prostitute.

1730

Hist. of Col. Francis Charteris 21: Mournful were the Lamentations of the Gentlewomen of the Smock, who were all at a stand, not knowing what to do with the Goods that remain’d on their hands.

1. those streets occupied by brothels.

1595		Maroccus Extaticus C: What complaint coulde haue come against Peticoat lane, Smocke Alley, Shorditch, or Rotten Row.
1616		Jonson Devil is an Ass I i: We will survey the Suburbs, and make forth our sallies, Downe Petticoat-lane, and up the Smock-alleys, To Shoreditch, Whitechappel, and so to Saint Katherns’.
1659		Mercurius Democritus 20-27 July 78: A strange accident happened in Smock-alley near Hip-street on Friday last, a light Gentle-woman [...] hang’d herself.
c.1659		Ladies Remonstrance [address on title page] Do-Little Lane, over against Smock-Alley.
1707		N. Ward Wooden World 69: If ever he’s troubled with Dreams ... then truly he oft fancies himself a mauling off the Roast-meat in Smock-alley.
1741		‘Capt. Samuel Cock’ Voyage to Lethe [title page] Printed for J. Conybeare in Smock-Alley near Petticoat Lane in Spittlefields.
1756		‘Capt. Samuel Cock’ Voyage to Lethe (2nd edn) [title page] printed for Mrs. Laycock, at Mr. Clevercock’s in Smock Alley.
1761		Memoirs of [...] Jane D****s 31: She was saluted by every whore in Smock-alley with, ‘Long life to you, mother C—s’.

2. (also smock castle) the vagina.

1673		Holborn Drollery 58: This warlike Rhodomontado Stormed SMOCK-CASTLE in a Bravado.
1768		Gentleman’s Bottle-Companion 15: Here’s the pretty neat playhouse that’s built in Smock-alley.
1790		Banquet of Wit 101: Sentiments and Toasts [...] Success to the Theatre of Smock Alley.
1890–1904		Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.
1896		Farmer Vocabula Amatoria (1966) 52: Callibistri, m. [...] 2. The female pudendum; ‘Smock Alley’.

(Aus.) a womanizer.

1890

Dead Bird (Sydney) 26 July 6/2: He was a tip-top swell, a real smock-dozzler, and he had taken his Mary-Anne to the ball.

a gathering place of whores.

c.1632

R. Brome A Novella III i: What make you here i’th’ Smock-Faire, precious Mistris?

a womanizer; thus smock-hunting, pursuing women.

1623		Massinger Bondman II i: Your rambling hunt-smocke feeles strange alterations, And in a Frosty morning, lookes as if He could with ease creepe in a pottle Pot, In stead of his Mistris placket.
1635		T. Nabbes Hannibal and Scipio I v: Valiant Captaines, turn’d smock-souldiers.
1719		‘New Song Made on the Intended Invasion of the Spaniards’ in Ballads and Songs 26: The Youth has now lost heart and head For ah! his brave Smock-Hero’s fled.
1890–1904		Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues VI 269/1 smock-hunting = whoring.

a pimp.

1599		Chapman Humorous Day’s Mirth I viii: He was taken learning tricks at old Lucilla’s house, the muster-mistress of all the smock-tearers in Paris, and both the bawd and the pander were carried to the dungeon.
c.1621		Massinger Maid of Honour (1632) v I: I hope Sir, You are not the man, much less imploy’d by him As a smocke-agent to me.
1663		Wandring Whore VI 4: Smock-Attornys (or Pimps).
1671		‘A Song’ in Ebsworth Westminster Drolleries (1875) 80: No, no, I’le never farm your Bed, Nor your Smock-Tenant be.
1696		Motteux (trans.) Pantagruelian Prognostications (1927) II 694: Those whom Venus is said to rule, as pandars, procurers, and mutton-brokers [...] smockers.
1709		N. Ward Works IV 173: Skilful smocksters [...] Tell us that Love’s a drowthy exercise [F&H].
1890–1904		Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues VI 268/2: smockster (smock-merchant, smell-smock, or smock-tearer) = a whoremonger.

a pimp, a kept man.

1890–1904

Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.

a promiscuous woman, lit. one who raises her smock.

1610		Jonson Alchemist V iv: No, my smock-rampant.
1621		Jonson Gypsies Metamorphosed 505: A woman true to no man [...] A smocke rampant and that itches to be putting on the britches.
1651		T. Randolph Hey for Honesty III i: I have no soul so poor as to obey To suffer a smock rampant to conduct me.
1692		T. Shadwell Volunteers III i: Thou wert a pretty Fellow, to Rebel all thy life-time against Princes, And trail a Pike under a Smock-Rampant at last.

1. a prostitute.

1896

Farmer Vocabula Amatoria (1966) 27: Bagasse, f. A prostitute; ‘a smock-servant’.

2. a mistress or lover.

1890–1904

Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues VI 268/2: smock-servant = (1) a mistress, and (2) a lover.

a brothel.

1654

Mercurius Fumigosus 24 8–15 Nov. 107: After the spending of 5.d. in Rewsh-Wine and Sugar, took her to a simple, shitten, sharking Smock-Shop, where they [illegible]’d that Night.

see smock hunter

a woman’s male lover.

1582

Stanyhurst Of Virgil his Æneis IV: Now this smocktoy Paris with berdlesse coompanye wayted.

prostitutes.

1637		Fletcher Elder Brother III ii: These smock vermin, How eagerly they leape at old mens kisses, They licke their lippes at profit, not at pleasure.
1691		R. Ames Female Fire-Ships Act II: Lewd Smock-Vermin.