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trollop

trol·lopUK /ˈtɹɒl.əp/noun, verb

trollop is a derogatory noun meaning “A strumpet; a whore” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-R-O-L-L-O-P and has 2 syllables (trol·lop), and it appears about once in every 19 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of trollop is trollops.

What does trollop mean?

noun

  1. 1

    derogatoryA strumpet; a whore.

verb

  1. 1

    to act in a sluggish or slovenly manner

  2. 2

    Scotlandto dangle soggily: become bedraggled

  3. 3

    to behave like a trollop

  4. 4

    Of a horse: to move with a gait between a trot and a gallop; to canter.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce trollop?

  • UK /ˈtɹɒl.əp/

Trollop has 2 syllables, split trol·lop in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-trollop.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of trollop

  • trollops plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • trolloping participle, present
  • trolloped participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is trollop?

Trollop appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 130,282nd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Trollop in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchpute, salope, garce, roulure, traînée, morue (woman of a vulgar and discourteous disposition)
GermanSchlampe, Hure (woman of a vulgar and discourteous disposition), Dirne (strumpet)
Spanishputa, golfa, ramera, zorra (woman of a vulgar and discourteous disposition)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does trollop come from?

Origin uncertain; apparently connected with the Middle English trollen (“to go about, stroll, roll from side to side”). Ostensibly influenced, if not derived, in some way by a word from Old Norse trǫll (“troll, witch, mage, monster, etc.”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).