Reverse Dictionary: MISTRESS

ADJECTIVES
► POLLED-UP living with a mistress or concubine → L19 Brit. sl.

NOUNS
► KEEPING the maintaining of a mistress or lover; the fact of condition of being so maintained → 1675 obs.

NOUNS – PERSON
► ABANDONED WOMAN a wanton; a mistress → 19C sl.
► ALBERTINE an adroit, calculating, business-like mistress → L19 sl.
► AMMUNITION WIFE a mistress → World War II Amer. sl.
► AUTEM MORT ► AUTEM MOT ► AUTEM MOTT a mistress, as in a woman who cohabits with a man, or accompanies a mendicant villain on his travels and his crimes → M16 criminals’ sl.
► BABY a wanton; a mistress → L19 sl.
► BACHELOR’S WIFE a mistress → 20C US sl.
► BACK-STREET WIFE a mistress → 1930s US sl.
► BAILLE a mistress; a sweetheart → 1825 Sc.
► BED-SISTER the mistress of a married man in relation to his lawful wife → 1297 obs.
► BEEBEE a White mistress; a prostitute  → 1886 Anglo-Indian
► BELAMOUR a loved one of either sex; a lady love; a sweetheart; a mistress → 1590 obs.
► BELLY-PIECE a concubine, a mistress, a prostitute, a whore → 1632 obs.
► BIRD a young woman, a girlfriend; a mistress → c1550 UK sl.
► BIRDIE a maiden, a girl; a young woman; a girlfriend, a mistress → 1876
► BIRD OF PARADISE a young woman, a girlfriend; a mistress → 1784 UK sl.
► BIT OF JAM a sweetheart; a mistress → c1886 sl.
► BIT OF NONSENSE a mistress → 1947 UK society usage
► BUTTERED BUN ► BUTTERED BUNS a harlot, a mistress; a prostitute → 1679 sl. obs.
► CANARY a mistress → 18C sl.
► CANARY-BIRD a mistress → 18C sl.
► CUSTOMER a promiscuous woman; a mistress → 1583 obs.
► DIDAPPER a mistress → 1589
► DOXY orig. the unmarried mistress of a beggar or rogue; a beggar’s trull or wench;  hence, a mistress, a paramour, a prostitute → 1515
► DRUERY one who is an object of love; a beloved person; a sweetheart; a mistress → c1315 obs.
► DULCINEA the name given by Don Quixote to his mistress in Cervantes’ romance; hence, a lady of one’s devotion, a lady-love, a sweetheart; a mistress → 1638
► FAD-CATTLE easily accessible women; sexually available women; tarts, wantons, mistresses→ 19C sl. 
► FANCY a girlfriend; a mistress; a man’s sweetheart → E19 sl.
► FANCY GIRL a man’s girlfriend or mistress → 1821 sl.
► FANCY PIECE orig. a gaudily dressed prostitute; later, a mistress, a ‘bit on the side’ → 1801 Brit. sl.
► FANCY-WOMAN a man’s sweetheart or mistress → 1812 sl., esp. criminals’ usage
► FLAME a sweetheart, a mistress in keeping → E18 sl.
► GALIMAUFRY ► GALLIMAUFREY ► GALLIMAUFRY a mistress; a sexually appealing woman → c1597 UK sl.
► GAMESTER a mistress → 1676 UK sl.
► GAY WOMAN a kept mistress or prostitute; one who is unchaste → 1913 sl. (Bk.)
► GENT a mistress; usually as ‘my gent’ → 1904 sl. (Bk.)
► GIMMER a mistress; a low woman → 1888 Eng. dial. obs. (Bk.)
► GIXIE an affected, mincing woman; a wanton wench; a mistress → 1641 obs.
► HACKNEY LADY a prostitute; a mistress → 1678 obs.
► INAMORATA a female lover, mistress, sweetheart → 1651
► INAMORETTA a female lover, mistress, sweetheart → 1709  obs.
► JAM a sweetheart; a mistress → c1880 sl.
► JAM-TART a wife or mistress → 19C sl.
► JUG a homely woman, a maid-servant, a sweetheart, or a mistress; also, a term of disparagement → 1569
► KEEP-MISS a woman supported as a paramour; a kept mistress → 1923 Sc.
► KEPTIE a woman kept as a mistress → 1940 US sl.
► KITTOCK a familiar or disrespectful term for a girl or young woman; esp. a woman of loose character; a wanton, an unchaste woman; a mistress, a concubine → c1470 Sc.
► LADY a woman who is the object of chivalrous devotion; a mistress → c1374
► LADY-BIRD a nice, ladylike, kept mistress → 17C sl.
► LADY OF PLEASURE a prostitute; a mistress or female lover → M17 euphemism 
► LADY OF THE LAKE a prostitute; a kept mistress → 1678 obs.
► LANDLADY a mistress → 1600 obs.
► LAY-BY a mistress → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► LEFT-HANDED WIFE a mistress → 19C sl.
► LEMAN one who is loved unlawfully; an unlawful lover or mistress; in later use, chiefly applied to the female sex → c1275 arch.
► LEVERET a mistress → 1617 obs.
► LIE-BY a concubine, a mistress → a1656 obs. exc. Sc. & Eng. dial.
► LIGHT O’ LOVE a mistress, a female lover → 1828
► LIMMER an unchaste, loose, or immoral woman; a mistress, a prostitute → 1566 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► LUCKY an elderly woman; a grandmother; also, a woman of any age, esp. a wife or mistress → 1629 Sc.
► MADAM a kept mistress; a courtesan, a prostitute → 1719 obs.
► MAKE of humans: a husband or wife; a lover or mistress → a1240 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► MAKE-BELIEVE a mistress treated as a wife → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MISS a mistress, a paramour → 1721 Sc. & Eng. dial. obs.
► MOLISHER ► MOLLISHER a low-class woman; a thief’s mistress; a criminal’s sweetheart; a female cohabiting with a man gets his living by thieving → 1859 sl. (Bk.)
► MOOSE in the Korean war: a girlfriend, mistress, or prostitute → 1951 US sl.
► MOUNT a wife or mistress → c1856 Brit. sl.
► MOUSE a mistress, a girlfriend → 1879 US sl.
► MUM one’s mistress of many years, or one’s wife, but not one’s actual mother → 1930s UK criminals’ sl.
► NATURAL a mistress; a prostitute → 1688 sl., obs.
► NIGHT-PIECE a mistress → 1620 obs.
► OLD FLAME an old lover; a cast-off mistress → 1846 sl.
► OLD LADY a mistress or steady girlfriend, regardless of age → 1918 US sl.
► OUTSIDE WOMAN a man’s lover; a mistress → L19 W. Indies
► PANEL a priest’s mistress; a sexually loose woman; a prostitute → 14C Brit. sl.
► PARAMOUR an illicit or clandestine lover or mistress taking the place, but without the rights, of a husband or wife; the illicit partner of a married man or woman → c1386
► PARNEL a priest’s concubine or mistress; a harlot; a wanton young woman; an immodest girl; an immoral woman; one lost to all sense of decency; a sexually loose woman; a prostitute → 1362 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► PECULIAR a mistress → L17 colloq. obs.
► PERNEL ► PERNELE a priest’s mistress; a sexually loose woman; a prostitute → 14C Brit. sl.
► PILLOW-MATE a wife; a mistress; a harlot → 19C colloq.
► PINTLE-BIT a mistress; a kept whore → 19C colloq., obs.
► PINTLE-MAID a mistress; a kept whore → 19C colloq., obs.
► PODGY a girlfriend, mistress, or prostitute → 1968 US Korean war usage
► POKE a mistress → 19C sl.
► PUG a courtesan; a prostitute; a harlot; a mistress → E17 obs.
► PURE a mistress → 17C sl.
► QUEAN a mistress, a paramour, a concubine → 1931 Sc. obs.
► QUEEN a mistress, or prostitute → 1968 US sl.
► RAINBOW a mistress → E19 sl.
► SATURDAY TO MONDAY a weekend woman; a mistress whom one sees only at weekends → 1903 sl. 
► SHE-FAMILIAR a mistress; a bed-mate → 19C sl.
► SHE-FRIEND a mistress → 1600 obs.
► SIDE DISH a mistress → 1949 US sl.
► SKIBBY an Oriental concubine or mistress; an Oriental prostitute; thus, when addressing a Japanese speaker, any prostitute → 1910s US sl.
► SMALL GIRL a mistress; a paramour; a prostitute → 1671 obs.
► SMIG a mistress → E20 sl.
► SOILED-DOVE a kept mistress or prostitute → 1865 sl.
► SOOTERKIN n. a sweetheart, a mistress → 1530 obs.
► SPARE a married man’s mistress; a wife’s lover → c1935 sl.
► SUCCUBA a mistress; a harlot → 1610
► SULTANA a mistress, a concubine → 1702
► SULTANA QUEEN the favourite concubine of a sultan; hence, a favourite mistress → 1668
► SWEET MAMA a female lover or mistress → 1999 African-American sl.
► TACKLE a mistress → 1688 sl. obs.
► TALLY- WIFE a married man’s mistress or concubine → 1887 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► TALLY-WOMAN a married man’s mistress; a concubine → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► TIB a mistress; a young woman of loose character; a strumpet, a prostitute → 1582 obs.
► UNDERPUT a mistress → E17 sl.
► WHITE MAN’S HANSOM WOMAN a Black mistress → 1892 W. Indian sl. (Bk.)
► WIFE a mistress or concubine → 19C sl.
► WIFE IN WATER COLOURS a mistress or concubine → 1785 sl. 

NOUNS – PERSON – OTHER
► DARK CULL a married man with a mistress that he visits only at night → 18C sl.
► DARK CULLY a married man with a mistress whom he sees only at night → L18 UK criminals’ sl.
► DARK DIDDLER a married man with a secret mistress → 1930 Amer. dial.
► KEEPER one who keeps a mistress → 1676 obs.
► MAINTAINER one who keeps a mistress → 1632 obs.
► UNCLE a man who has a mistress → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)