Also 6 trowle, 6–7 trulle, trul, 7 troul. [= Ger. trulle, Swiss trolle, Swabian trull.]
1. A low prostitute or concubine; a drab, strumpet, trollop.
1519. Interl. Four Elements (Percy Soc.), 46. I shall apoynt you a trull of trust, Not a feyrer in this towne!
1591. Greene, Disc. Coosnage (1592), 15. These common truls … walke abroad … as stales to draw men into hell.
1632. Chapman & Shirley, Ball, II. i. Have you as much left … as will Keep you and this old troul a fortnight longer?
1737. Swift, Proposal Badges to Beggars, Wks. 1761, III. 337. He and his trull, and his litter of brats.
1871. Morley, Crit. Misc., 255. Coarse orgies with the trulls of Wapping.
attrib. 1898. G. Egerton, Fantasias, 144. A glad voice, singing a song of the trull forces of nature.
† 2. A girl, lass, wench. Obs.
1560. Ingelend, Disob. Child (Percy Soc.), 26. This mynion here, this myncing trull.
1573. Tusser, Husb. (1873), 85. Sow pease (good trull) the Moone past full.
a. 1600. J. Wootton, Jigge, in Eng. Helicon, G v j. Heard to each Swaine, seen to each Trull.
