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English
Noun
whipper-ginnie (plural whipper-ginnies)
- (obsolete) A slut or slattern.
1593, Frederick James Furnivall, Tell-Trothes New Yeares Gift:And that fornicators (after they had obtained their desires according to the course of lawe) should, stroking vppe their crooked shankes, and belabouring their rusty beardes with their wetherbeaten fingers, seeking other wenches, meet with whipper ginnies that should knowe how to vse such old leachers so handsomely, (beeing contented to indure discontentment, with the thought of the coine that lines their olde bagges,) as they shall be reputed by them for as honest women as liue, vntill the wedding day bee past, when in the euening (fore-thinkinge of the small pleasure is like to ensue by their pastime) they shal faine themseues so sicke, as of force they will lye alone, or at least without those old wretches.
1978, Logophile - Volume 2, Issue 6, page 10:"Methingks you Clithereare's nun hath a reasty look , forsooth!" "Reasty?", retorted that housewife, " Callest thou me a whipper-ginnie, thou hufty-tufty cumtwang?"
1980, Marston Balch, Thomas Middleton's "No Wit, No Help Like a Woman's" and "The Counterfeit Bridegroom" (1677) and Further Adaptations, page 46:Yet it believe thee Valiant, or such a little whipper-ginnie durst not have been so desperate to have ventur'd on a longing Widow