Meaning of brasser | Babel Free

Definitions

Prostitute.

Ireland, slang

Examples

“1. The brassers, yeh know wha' I mean. The gee. Is tha' why? 2. Yeh know the way they're The Byrds an' Bird is another name for a girl, righ'? —Couldn't we be The Brassers? It was a great name.”

“Don't misunderstand me, compadre, he said. Not just women. All men are brassers as well.”

“Among the devices in the word formation morphology of Dublin English the most striking and productive must be the addition of -er /-ər/ (more rarely -ers) to stems...Examples: ...brasser 'prostitute, shameless female'...”

“"Oh, and all the brassers knew Dolly Moran," he said. Quirke nodded. Brassers were whores, he assumed, but how? Brass nails, rhyming with tails, or was it something to do with screws?”

“"Sex workers? Jesus, even the brassers have gone PC," I said to the screen.”

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