subs.—A strumpet. For synonyms, see BARRACK-HACK and TART. Also LIGHT-HEELS.
1602. J. COOKE, How a Man may Choose a Good Wife from a Bad iii. 2 [DODSLEY, Old Plays, 1874, ix. 53]. I’ll tell my mistress as soon as I come home that mistress LIGHT-HEELS comes to dinner to-morrow.
1606. The Return from Parnassus, i., 2 [DODSLEY, Old Plays, 1874, ix. 118].
| Hath not Shore’s wife, although a LIGHT-SKIRTS she, | |
| Giv’n him a chaste, long-lasting memory? | |
| Ibid. i., 6, 127. | |
| You LIGHT-SKIRT stars, this is your wonted guise, | |
| By gloomy light perk out your doubtful heads. |
1612. The Passenger: Of Benvenuto, 269. F. The purse serues for an Art: but if I should briefly tell thee, what punkish Art, deriued from her Progenitors, this LIGHT SKIRTS vsed towards me, thou wouldest laugh.
1659. Lady Alimony, ii., 6 [DODSLEY, Old Plays (HAZLITT), 4th ed., 1875, xiv., 317].
| That LIGHT-SKIRT, with impetuous heat | |
| Sometimes pursu’d me. |
1767. RAY, Proverbs [BOHN (1893), 64]. A whore, a LIGHT-SKIRTS.
1834. H. TAYLOR, Philip van Artevelde, pt. II. iii. 3.
| Friar. Oh, she’s a LIGHT-SKIRTS!—yea, and at this present | |
| A little, as you see, concerned with liquor. |
