Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(orig. Aus.) a prostitute; also attrib.

1914		E. Wittmann ‘Clipped Words’ in DN IV:ii 123: pross, also prossy. A prostitute.
1941		Baker Popular Dict. Aus. Sl. 57: [...] prossie, a prostitute.
1961		(con. WW2) R. Poole London E1 (2012) 260: Some of the prossies have got together [...] and started an unofficial club.
1965		W. Dick Bunch of Ratbags 196: She plied her trade along St Kilda Road at night, with all the other prossos.
1963		R.L. Finn Time Remembered (1985) 124: Prozzies were younger, more attractive. Whores were debauched old bags.
1971		Winick & Kinsie Lively Commerce 41: ‘Biffer,’ ‘prossie,’ ‘she-she,’ ‘pig-meat’ are some other slang designations.
1972		B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular 159: a prostitute [...] prossy.
1981		C. Hope Separate Development 142: I studied the messages on the walls. ‘Young Man Seeks Genuine Prozzie No Chancers.’.
1989		J. Morton Lowspeak.
1992		I. Rankin Wolfman 92: Done his first prossie in Brick Lane.
1998		I. Welsh Filth 158: I’m window-shopping for a suitable prossy in the red-light district.
2000		M. Manning Get Your Cock Out 46: The Virgin herself, wearing a monster strap on, buggers the saintly prozzie’s savagely stretched sphinc.
2000		Observer Screen 12 Mar. 3: Asked to sum up how it felt to spend a week in an airing cupboard talking about being a gay prossie.
2005		B. Hare Urban Grimshaw 217: Half the prossies in Leeds are after me.
2011		S. Kelman Pigeon English 130: Prossie and hooker and tutufo all mean the same.
2012		(con. 1980s) I. Welsh Skagboys 182: She’s a prozzy, a hooker, a dirty big hoor.
2012		D. Whish-Wilson ‘In Savage Freedom’ in Crime Factory: Hard Labour [ebook] Hard-faced prossies with plastic tits.
2012		J. Fagan Panopticon (2013) 62: Prozzie mum gets stabbed.
2015		I. Welsh Decent Ride 61: The boy we had here in Edinburgh South, he got ehs jotters for brining prossies back tae ehs office in Westminster.
2016		D. Whish-Wilson Old Scores [ebook] Prossies were always good for a bit of information.