drazel

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noun

A prostitute.

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Meanings

noundrazel (plural drazels)

plural drazels

  1. obsoleteA prostitute.

    As the devil uses witches, / To be their cully for a space, / That, when the time's expir'd, the drazels / For ever may become his vassals.

    1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]. Canto I.”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC, page 3

Origin

Compare dross, drossel.

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APA

drazel. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/drazel

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “drazel,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/drazel.

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