pross
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Clipping of prostitute, with a doubled s as a pronunciation spelling.
Noun[edit]
pross (plural prosses)
- (slang) A prostitute.
- 2015, David Smith, Who Invited the Band?, page 84:
- All the prosses took the piss out of him, as did the England boys and there wasn't a lot that Andy could do or say. Stuart Hill's girl turned up, as she was doing sex for free, she was not popular with the prosses.
Verb[edit]
pross (third-person singular simple present prosses, present participle prossing, simple past and past participle prossed)
- (UK, slang, obsolete) To sponge or scrounge; to take advantage of a person's generosity.
- 1896, The Sketch: A Journal of Art and Actuality (volume 14, page 231)
- He will ask for a bank-note as one asks for a cigarette […]
Now and again in the dingy, dreary desert of "prossing" one finds an oasis of humour wherein the weary lender may obtain some solace for his ills.
- He will ask for a bank-note as one asks for a cigarette […]
- 1896, The Sketch: A Journal of Art and Actuality (volume 14, page 231)
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary