Tallywoman

[f. TALLY sb.¹ + WOMAN.]

  a.  A woman who sells goods on credit: cf. TALLYMAN 1. b. slang. A woman who ‘lives tally’ with a man (see TALLY sb.¹ 4 b): correlative to TALLYMAN 3.

1727.  Gay, Begg. Op., III. v. Mrs. Diana Trapes, the Tally-Woman.

1890.  Leeds Mercury, 11 Aug., in N. & Q., 7th Ser. X. 229/1. I thought she was his tally-woman lately.

1890.  [see TALLYMAN 3].

1894.  Daily Chron., 11 June (Funk). Her dress she gets by paying a small weekly sum of 2d. or 3d. to what is called a ‘tallyman’ or ‘tallywoman.’