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Strapper. World English Historical Dictionary

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Strapper. 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. Strapper subs. (old).—‘A swingeing two-handed woman’ (B. E. and GROSE); anything big or bulky: cf. WHOPPER. STRAPPING = tall, robust, well-made.

1   1678.  COTTON, Scarronides, or, Virgil Travestie (Works (1725), iv. 105].          At last a Crew of STRAPPING Jades, That were, or should have been her Maids.

2   1681.  A. RADCLIFFE, Ovid Travestie, 3.        Has he not got a Lady that’s a STRAPPER?     Ibid., 26. This Girl, said she, is grown a STRAPPING LASS, She must be marry’d, or she’l grow too busy.

3   1694.  CONGREVE, The Double Dealer, iii. 10. Then that other great STRAPPING Lady.

4   1700.  FARQUHAR, The Constant Couple, i. 1. There are five-and-thirty STRAPPING officers gone this morning.

5   1751.  SMOLLETT, Peregrine Pickle, lxxxvii. Ah, you STRAPPER, what a jolly bitch you are.

6   1778.  BURNEY, Diary (1893), i. 88. ‘You who are light and little can soon recover, but I who am a gross man might suffer severely.’… Poor Lady Sadd, who is quite a STRAPPER, made no answer.

7   1847.  C. BRONTË, Jane Eyre, xx. ‘She’s a rare one, is she not, Jane?’ ‘Yes, sir.’ ‘A STRAPPER—a real STRAPPER, Jane: big, brown, and buxom.’

8   1885.  Daily Telegraph, 25 Aug. ‘The police, fine STRAPPING fellows, usually Irish, wear white ducks in fine weather.’

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