trull

See also: Trull

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɹʌl/

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• Rhymes: -ʌl

Etymology 1

From Middle English trul (“travel about”), from Old French troller, treiller (“to hunt”). Doublet of troll.

Noun

trull (plural trulls)

1. (archaic) A female prostitute or harlot.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus: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 nasty trull or other?’

   • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “Dray Wara Yow Dee”, in In Black and White (A. H. Wheeler & Co.’s Indian Railway Library; no. 3), 5th edition, Allahabad: Messrs. A. H. Wheeler & Co.; London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, Ld., […], published 1890, →OCLC:

     South of Delhi, Sahib, you know the saying—‘Rats are the men and trulls 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 seven trulls 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, this trull, 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:

     A trull for certain, then; but a trull reformed, long since come up in the world.

Translations

A female prostitute or harlot

• Bulgarian: уличница (bg) f (uličnica), проститу́тка (bg) f (prostitútka)
• Russian: проститу́тка (ru) f (prostitútka), шлю́ха (ru) f (šljúxa)
• Turkish: karı (tr)

Etymology 2

The trull from an Austrian Tarock deck.

From French tous les trois (“all three”).

Noun

trull (plural trulls)

1. (card games) A set of three special trump cards used in some Tarock games, having a higher value than the other trumps.

Further reading

• Trull (cards) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *troculum, from Latin torculum.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

trull m (plural trulls)

1. an oil or wine press

   Synonym: almàssera

Related terms

• trullar

Descendants

• → Spanish: trullo

References

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