streetwalker

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From street + walker.

Up in the Coombe with chummies and streetwalkers and then the rest of the year sober as a judge. — Ulysses, James Joyce
‘They’ve got Drugger Davis!’ “Among the wretched women, mostly thieves and streetwalkers, twenty faces were turned, gaping with glee and hate. — The wisdom of Father Brown, G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
They will read it in the headlines of the papers—a few suicides, a few defaulters, a few new convicts, an unclaimed corpse or two at the morgue; a few innocent girls, whose fathers’ fortunes have gone to swell Camemeyer’s and ‘Standard Oil’s’ already uncountable gold, turned into streetwalkers; a few new palaces on Fifth Avenue, and a few new libraries given to communities that formerly took pride in building them from their honestly earned savings. — Friday, the Thirteenth: A Novel, Thomas William Lawson

street girl, hooker, hustler, floozy, floozie, slattern

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