Trull vs Truel - What's the difference?
trull | truel |
A female prostitute or harlot.
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 365:
* 1888 , Rudyard Kipling, ‘Dray Wara Yow Dee’, Black and White , Folio Society 2004, vol. 1, p. 369:
* 1922 , James Joyce, Ulysses :
As nouns the difference between trull and truel
is that trull is a female prostitute or harlot while truel is (neologism) a conflict between three contending persons, groups or ideas.trull
English
Noun
(en noun)- ‘Hark'ee, child,’ says she, ‘is not that very young gentleman now in bed with some nasty trull or other?’
- South of Delhi, Sahib , you know the saying—‘Rats are the men and trulls the women.’
- 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.