Meanings
plural Jack whores
- archaicslangA female prostitute with a large build or masculine characteristics.First known use 18th c.
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.
1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 273
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