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doxy

help with synonyms synonyms: courtesan, strumpet, wapping dell, bona-roba ???

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a mistress, prostitute or sweetheart, or possibly all three at once

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The angle of the street named as leading out of the Strand was dark of a night and a favorite place for doxies to go to relieve their bladders. The police took no notice of such trifles, provided it was not done in the greater thoroughfares (although I have seen at night women do it openly in the gutters in the Strand),

Anonymous. My Secret Life (1888)
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"[...] Little reason to hurry back, so far as I can see—I doubt your good man will ha’ taken a doxy to his bed in the time ye’ve been gone.”

Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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 She must prepare perfumes, delicate linen,
 The bath in chief, a banquet, and her wit,
 For she must milk his epididimis.
 Where is the doxy?
 SUB. I'll send her to thee:

Ben Jonson. The Alchemist (1610)
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