Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. a prostitute.

c.1698		implied in fag the fen under fag v.1
1725		New Canting Dict. n.p.: fen a Strumpet, or Bawd, a common Prostitute.
1737, 1759, 1760, 1776		Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. 1725].
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1859		Matsell Vocabulum.

2. a madame, a procuress.

1961

Partridge DU 235/1: ‘1725; † by 1880’.

3. a receiver of stolen goods.

1984

Partridge DSUE (8th edn) 385/2: late C17–18.