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Bulker. World English Historical Dictionary

Bulker. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Bibliographic Record Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022. Bulker or Bulk, subs. (old).—1.  ‘One that lodges all Night on Shop-windows and Bulkheads.’ (B. E.) [BULK = the stall (or window sill) of a shop].

1   1598.  FLORIO, A Worlde of Wordes, s.v., balcone.

2   2.  A low prostitute: lit. one with no settled home who slept on a ‘bulk,’ a kind of sill projecting from a window: see TART.

3   1670.  E. RAVENSCROFT, The Careless Lovers. She must on with the striped semar and turn BULKER—at which trade I hope to see you suddenly.

4   1691.  SHADWELL, The Scowerers, Act i., Sc. 1. Every one in a petticoat is thy mistress, from humble BULKER to haughty countess.

5   1690.  D’URFEY, Collin’s Walk through London and Westminster, 4.        For all your majors scarce will make, Me thinks, what’s past for Virtues sake; Or that this BULKER of the town, Came only here to rub ye down.

6   1728.  BAILEY, Dictionarium Britannicum, s.v. BULKER, a Common Jilt; a Whore.—Canting term. [In a later edition (1790) he adds ‘one who would lay down on a bulk to anyone.’]

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