drazel

English

Etymology

Compare dross, drossel.

Noun

drazel (plural drazels)

1. (obsolete) A prostitute.
   • 1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]. Canto I.”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC, page 3:

     As the devil uses witches, / To be their cully for a space, / That, when the time's expir'd, the drazels / For ever may become his vassals.

Synonyms

See Thesaurus:prostitute

References

• “drazel”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.