trugging-house

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

See trug.

Noun[edit]

trugging-house (plural trugging-houses)

  1. (obsolete) A brothel.
    • 1592, Robert Greene, A Disputation Between a Hee Conny-Catcher and a Shee Conny-Catcher:
      one of those houses of good hospitality whereunto persons resort, commonly called a trugging-house, or to be plain, a whorehouse
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