Urban Dictionary: Nunnery

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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

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Nunnery

Where they make the nuns

"The Catholic hospital is located next to the Nunnery"

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1. slang for "whorehouse" in the times of shakespeare
2. a convent

"get thee to a nunnery!"

by vernizzle August 10, 2005

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Nunneries

An alternate word for jibberish thanks to autocorrect!

Sydney speaks more nunneries then she does English! 😂

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nunnery

1: Slang term for convent; itz wea da nun's crib at.
2: The act of living your life in poverty, chastity and obedience. To act like a nun.

1:"It's right past that nunnery on the left."
2:"We don't take kindly to nunnery 'round here!"

by pat (as in the onomatopoeia) July 11, 2005

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nunnery

a) (antiquated meaning): the female version of a monastery
b) (new and improved meaning): a coolidiculous name for a place where all north american girls who are virgin past age 20 regularly gather and socialize

since yolo and yodo are concepts relevant to modern north america, a nunnery under definition b) might also be a place where the women "serve a life sentence" for the simple "crime" of "being virgin past age 20"

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