Jack whore

noun

Jack whore

noun
1

Archaic, Slang A female prostitute with a large build or masculine characteristics.

  • He at the time was the professed keeper of Mrs Cuyler, a great jack whore, without pretensions to manners or beauty of face or person, and only an understrapper upon the stage of one of the London theatres.1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 273

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