Jack whore

English

Noun

Jack whore (plural Jack whores)

  1. (slang, now rare) A female prostitute with a large build or masculine characteristics. [from 18th c.]
    • 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 273:
      He at the time was the professed keeper of Mrs Cuyler, a great jack whore, without pretensions to manners or beauty of face or person, and only an understrapper upon the stage of one of the London theatres.
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