Green’s Dictionary of Slang

edie n.

[the image of Edie as a poor person’s name]

a prostitute (working Piccadilly, Bayswater Road and other ‘cheap’ streets in London).

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Gosling & Warner Shame of a City n.p.: From the point of view of the police, the best of the street-walkers, or ‘Toms’ as they were called, was the Mayfair professional, and the worst the Edies of the East End, Piccadilly and the railway stations [DSUE].