trollop

Meanings

1. A strumpet; a whore.

1. to act in a sluggish or slovenly manner
2. to dangle soggily: become bedraggled
3. to behave like a trollop
4. Of a horse: to move with a gait between a trot and a gallop; to canter.

Etymology

Origin uncertain; apparently connected with the Middle English trollen (“to go about, stroll, roll from side to side”). Ostensibly influenced, if not derived, in some way by a word from Old Norse trǫll (“troll, witch, mage, monster, etc.”).