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