or overswitched or overwhippe-housewife, subs. phr. (old).—See quots., BARRACK-HACK and TART.
[?]. Kennett MS. [HALLIWELL]. An OVERSWITCHT HOUSWIFE, a loose wanton slut, a whore.
1598. SHAKESPEARE, 2 Henry IV., iii. 2. [He] came ever in the rearward of the fashion and sung those tunes to OVER-SCUTCHED HUSWIFES that he heard the carmen whistle, and sware they were his fancies or his good-nights.
1675. RAY, North-Country Words. OVERSWITCHED HOUSEWIFE. A whore; a ludicrous word.
