DRAB
ADJECTIVES
► DUCKETY of a drab, dull brown resembling the colour of mud → 1841 chiefly Irish & Newfoundland
► FRUMPISH old-fashioned or dowdy; outmoded, shabby, drab → 1847
► PO-JO drab; dreary; poverty-stricken → 1950 Amer. dial.
NOUNS, PERSON
► BARBER’S CHAIR a drab, a strumpet; a common prostitute who is used by all customers; a promiscuous woman → 1621 obs.
► CURTAL a drab; a nasty slattern → 1611 obs.
► DAB a drab; an untidy, thriftless woman → 1730
► LAIDRON ► LAITHRON ► LETHRON a drab; a sloven; a dirty, untidy woman or girl, → 1718 Sc. obs.
► LIDDERON ► LIDRONE a drab; a sloven; a dirty, untidy woman or girl → 1825 Sc.
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