• IPA^(key): /tɹʌl/

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FromMiddle Englishtrul(“travel about”), fromOld Frenchtroller,treiller(“to hunt”).Doublet oftroll.

trull (pluraltrulls)

1. (archaic) A femaleprostitute orharlot.

   Synonyms:seeThesaurus:prostitute

   • 1749,Henry Fielding,The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume(please specify |volume=I to VI), London:A[ndrew] Millar, […],→OCLC:

     ‘Hark'ee, child,’ says she, ‘is not that very young gentleman now in bed with some nastytrull or other?’

   • 1888,Rudyard Kipling, “Dray Wara Yow Dee”, inIn Black and White (A. H. Wheeler & Co.’sIndian Railway Library;no. 3), 5th edition, Allahabad:Messrs. A. H. Wheeler & Co.; London:Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, Ld., […], published1890,→OCLC:

     South of Delhi,Sahib, you know the saying—‘Rats are the men andtrulls the women.’

   • 1922 February,James Joyce,Ulysses, Paris:Shakespeare and Company, […],→OCLC:

     There was bad blood between them at first, says Mr Vincent, and the lord Harry called farmer Nicholas all the old Nicks in the world and an old whoremaster that kept seventrulls in his house and I’ll meddle in his matters, says he.

   • 1936, Anthony Bertram,Like the Phoenix:

     However, terrible as it may seem to the tall maiden sisters of J.P.'s in Queen Anne houses with walled vegetable gardens, this courtesan, strumpet, harlot, whore, punk, fille de joie, street-walker, this trollop, thistrull, this baggage, this hussy, this drab, skit, rig, quean, mopsy, demirep, demimondaine, this wanton, this fornicatress, this doxy, this concubine, this frail sister, this poor Queenie--did actually solicit me, did actually say 'coming home to-night, dearie' and my soul was not blasted enough to call a policeman.

   • 2002, Peter Tonkin,One Head Too Many:

     Atrull for certain, then; but atrull reformed, long since come up in the world.

FromFrenchtouslestrois(“all three”).

trull (pluraltrulls)

1. (card games) A set of three specialtrump cards used in someTarock games, having a higher value than the other trumps.

• Trull (cards) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Inherited fromVulgar Latin*troculum, fromLatintorculum.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia)[ˈtɾuʎ]

trull m (pluraltrulls)

1. an oil or winepress

   Synonym:almàssera

• trullar

• → Spanish:trullo

• “trull” inDiccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició,Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “trull” inDiccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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