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Thread #21275   Message #2499459
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
21-Nov-08 - 01:35 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Sally Goodin / Gooden
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sally Gooden
Doxy- Grose, in his Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1811) defined doxies as "she beggars, wenches, whores."

In 1561, Awdelay wrote "His woman with him..which he calleth his Altham, if she be hys wyfe, & if she be his harlot, she is called hys doxy."