Trug

or trugge, truk, subs. (old).—1.  A concubine, a harlot: see TART; (2) ‘a dirty Puzzel, an ord’nary sorry Woman’ (B. E., c. 1696); (3) a catamite. Hence TRUGGING-KEN (or HOUSE) = a brothel: see NANNY-SHOP.

  1592.  GREENE, A Quip for an Upstart Courtier [Harleian Miscellany, V. 405]. A bowsie bawdie miser, goode for none but himself and his TRUGGE. Ibid., 406. The TRUG his mistress. Ibid., Theeves Falling Out [Harleian Miscellany (PARK), VIII. 401]. One of those houses of good hospitallity whereunto persons resort, commonly called a TRUGGING-HOUSE, or to be plain, a whore-house.

  1607.  MIDDLETON, Your Five Gallants, i. 1. A pretty middle-sized TRUG.

  1608.  DEKKER, The Belman of London [GROSART, Works, iii. 152]. The Whore-house, which is called a TRUGGING-PLACE.

  c. 1609.  J. HEALEY, The Discovery of a New World, 194. Euery other house keepes sale TRUGGES or Ganymedes, all which pay a yearly stipend for the licence they haue to trade.

  1630.  TAYLOR (‘The Water Poet’), Workes. Besides, I found a cursed Catalogue of these veneriall Caterpillars, who were supprest with the Monasteries in England, in the time of King Henry the eight, with the number of TRUGS which each of them kept in those daies.

  c. 1650.  BRATHWAITE, Barnaby’s Journal, iv.