nunnery

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

"get thee to a nunnery!"

by vernizzle September 3, 2005

nunnery

A) antiquated meaning: the female version of a monastery
B) a place where virgin girls past age 20 gather and socialize.

Why are you in a nunnery definition b) did you consider going to a nunnery definition a)?

by Sexydimma May 27, 2018

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 28, 2005

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"

by Sexydimma May 14, 2018

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"

by Sexydimma March 26, 2018

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"

by Sexydimma February 19, 2021

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