trugging-house

English

Etymology

See trug.

Noun

trugging-house (plural trugging-houses)

1. (obsolete) A brothel.
   • 1592, Robert Greene, A Disputation Between a Hee Conny-Catcher and a Shee Conny-Catcher:

     one of those houses of good hospitality whereunto persons resort, commonly called a trugging-house, or to be plain, a whorehouse