Obs. exc. dial. Also 6–7 trugge, 7 truck. [? ad. It. trucca ‘a fustian or rogish word for a trull, a whore, or a wench’ (Florio); perh. cognate with TRUCK sb.1] A prostitute; a trull.
1592. Greene, Upst. Courtier, G j. You Tom tapster … haue your trugges to draw men on to villanie.
1620. trans. Boccaccio’s Decam., VI. x. 18 b. One of the Hostesses Female attendants, a gross fat Trugge.
1631. Brathwait, Whimzies, 139. Would you have a true survey of his family…? you shall finde them subsist of three heads: himselfe, his truck, and her misset.
a. 1700. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, Trug, a dirty Puzzel, an ord’nary sorry Woman.
1883. Hampsh. Gloss., Trug, a trull, low female companion.
† b. A catamite. Obs. rare.
c. 1608. Healey, Disc. New World, III. vii. § 2. 194. Euery other house keepes sale Trugges or Ganymedes.
a. 1630. J. Taylor (Water P.), Bawd, Wks. II. 93/2. A cursed Catalogue of those veneriall caterpillars … with the number of trugs which each of them kept.
Hence † Trugging-house, † trugging-place, a brothel.
1591. Greene, Disc. Coosnage, Wks. (Grosart), X. 37. The whoore house, a Trugging place. Ibid. (1592), Blacke Bkes. Messenger, Wks. (ed. Huth), XI. 12. This olde Letcher … had a haunt into Petticote Lane to a Trugging house there.
