pross
See also: Pross
English
editEtymology
editClipping of prostitute, with a doubled s as a pronunciation spelling.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editpross (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
editpross (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.
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary