subs. (old).—A wanton, a harlot: spec. a hedge-whore, a TROLLOP (q.v.); ‘a soldier’s, beggar’s, or tinker’s wife or wench’ (B. E. and GROSE).
d. 1529. SKELTON, Works [T. L. KINGTON-OLIPHANT, The New English, i. 372. There is trowle (TRULL) from the High German].
c. 1530. RASTELL, The Four Elements.
| For to satisfye your wanton lust, | |
| I shall apoynt you a TRULL of trust, | |
| Not a feyrer in this towne! |
1567. TURBERVILLE, To a Yong Gentleman of Taking a Wyfe [CHALMERS, ii. 618]. A filthie TRULL is yrkesome to the eie.
1569. PRESTON, Cambyses [DODSLEY, Old Plays (HAZLITT), iv. 181].
| Meretrix. What, is there no lads here that hath a lust | |
| To have a passing TRULL to help at their need? |
1605. CHAPMAN, All Fools, iv. 1. A beggar too, a TRULL, a blowse?
1610. FLETCHER, The Maids Tragedy, i. 2. This is no place for such youths and their TRULLS.
1611. CORYATE, Crudities, I. 104. I never saw in all my life such an ugly company of TRULS and sluts, as their women were.
1637. DAVENANT, Britannia Triumphans [Dramatists of the Restoration, ii. 280].
| Shall I grow meek as babe when ev’ry TRULL is | |
| So bold to steal my sloes? |
1638. FORD, The Lady’s Trial, iii. 1. Wench is your TRULL, your blowse, your dowdy.
16[?] JOHN WOOTTON [England’s Helicon].
| Be thy voyce shrill, be thy mirth seene: | |
| Heard to each Swaine, seene to each TRULL. |
c. 1650. BRATHWAITE, Drunken Barnaby’s Journal, II. 61.
| Thence to Holloway, Mother Redcap | |
| In a troop of TRULLS I did hap. |
1659. MASSINGER, The City Madam, ii. 2.
| Tinker’s TRULL, | |
| A beggar without a smock. |
1678. COTTON, Scarronides, or, Virgil Travestie (1770), 126.
| Shall I invite to be my Spouse, | |
| Some one I have forbid my House? … | |
| Æneas’ Leavings, or, like TRULL here, | |
| Run away basely with this Sculler. |
1688. RANDLE HOLME, Academy of Armoury. Guteli, or trulli, are spirits like women, which show great kindness to men, and hereof it is that we call light women TRULLS.
1693. G. STEPNEY, Juvenal, viii.
| To make the world distinguish Julia’s son, | |
| From the vile offspring of a TRULL, who sits | |
| By the town-wall, and for her living knits. |
1694. MOTTEUX, Rabelais, V. xxviii. Buttock of a monk!… how plump these plaguy TRULLS, these arch semiquavering strumpets must be!
1700. CONGREVE, The Way of the World, i. 8. These are TRULLS whom he allows coach-hire.
1707. WARD, Hudibras Redivivus, II. ii. 15. This is the Charm that tempts rich Fools To marry worthless Jilts and TRULLS.
1727. SOMERVILLE, Fables, etc., xiii.
| Leave, leave, for shame, your TRULLS at Sh—er Hall, | |
| And marry in good time, or not at all. |
1748. SMOLLETT, Roderick Random, xlvii. This friend is no other than a rascal who wants to palm his TRULL off upon you for a wife.
