subs. phr. (old).—A whore: also a general reproach.

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  1596.  SHAKESPEARE, Merry Wives of Windsor, iv. 2. You witch, you hag, you baggage, you POLECAT.

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  1607.  DEKKER, Northward Hoe, i. 1. Your captains were wont to take their leaves of their London POLE-CATS (their wenches I mean, sir), at Dunstable.

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