Twathenge's definitions

Dollymop

A prostitute, often an amateur or a part-time street girl; a midinette. Victorian-era slang.

"Francis has picked 'imself up another dollymop, 'e as," Gerald told me later that night.

by Twathenge April 29, 2006

Curb crawler

A woman who walks the streets peddling herself for sex; a prostitute.

After Jim-Dandy kicked Buffy's ass out of the crib, she turned into a righteous curb crawler, peddling her skinny white ass on the street to get a fin for another rock of crack. She wound up sleeping in a Port-a-Potty downtown until some anonymous john slit her thoat.

by Twathenge April 29, 2006

Hobosexual

A man or woman of any sexual/affectional persuasion or preference who is rated as a disappointment within the realm of surrendering to the exigencies of physical love; a Bum fuck

"I thought that Darlene was as pretty as a bowl of tits," Sydney said, "but when we slipped between the sheets and finally got down to it, she turned out to be a hobosexual."

"Wassathat?" Tommy barked.

"A bum fuck!"

by Twathenge May 5, 2006

Nunnery

A brothel.

Etymology: Since the Elizabethan era, nun has been slang for a prostitute (ref. William Faulkner, "Requiem for a Nun"), and a nunnery referred to a brothel.

See also: Abbess, Bordello, Brothel, Nun, Whorehouse

"Polly Adler, in her memoir 'A House is Not a Home,' tells of her time as the abbess of the Big Town's poshest nunnery."

Walter Winchell, 1953

by Twathenge April 26, 2006

Abbess

Female brothel keeper. A Madame.

Etymology: Victorian underworld slang. An abbess (Latin abbatissa, fem. form of abbas, abbot) is the female superior, or Mother Superior, of an abbey or convent of nuns. Since the Elizabethan era, nun has been slang for a prostitute (ref. William Faulkner, "Requiem for a Nun"), and a nunnery referred to a brothel.

"Polly Adler, in her memoir 'A House is Not a Home,' tells of her time as the abbess of the Big Town's poshest nunnery."

Walter Winchell, 1953

by Twathenge April 26, 2006

Couter

Pound sterling (money).

"'Do you have any couter, brother?' the old drunkie said to me and my droogs."

-- Anthony Burgess, "A Clockwork Orange"

by Twathenge April 29, 2006