pross

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English

Etymology

Clipping of prostitute, with a doubled s as a pronunciation spelling.

Pronunciation

Noun

pross (plural prosses)

  1. (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

pross (third-person singular simple present prosses, present participle prossing, simple past and past participle prossed)

  1. (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

References

  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary