Obs. slang. Also 7 tweake. [? from TWEAK sb.1 or v.] A harlot; ‘also, a whoremonger’ (Halliwell).
1617. Middleton & Rowley, Fair Quarrel, IV. iv. Your tweaks are like your mermaids, they have sweet voices to entice the passengers.
1631. Brathwait, Whimzies, Char. Painter, 134. Hee sometimes playes the witty satyrist, and displayes light tweakes in loose roabes. Ibid. (1638), Barnabees Jrnl., I. D v. An apt one To be Tweake unto a Captaine. Ibid., III. R vij. From the bushes neare the Lane there Rush’d a Tweake in gesture flanting.
1719. D’Urfey, Pills (1872), III. 146. If any man here be in bodily fear, Of a Wolf, a Wife, or a Tweak.
