doxy

doxy
noun /ˈdɒksi/
a) A prostitute or a mistress.

Do you think the writer of Antony and Cleopatra, a passionate pilgrim, had his eyes in the back of his head that he chose the ugliest doxy in all Warwickshire to lie withal?

b) A defined opinion.

So then, of course, he paid her in kind...the place is full of his doxies, open a closet at Allington and some wench falls out of it.


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